Driving Style - The Pedals

Scott Sharp describes the difference in driver styles.

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Sports

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• Driving
• Style

[NapalmCandy]

I have a question, where is the emotion to drive a car ever to left? How you can to say that "race".

Sincerely explain me, because I don't understand why pilots like the ovals.

[Peter141414]

I don't race ovals, but I can tell that it's more competitive racing with many cars packed together trying to get the most out of the draft. The qualifying must be so close and during a race, it is possible to start way back come up to the front to win. For drivers that like to wheel to wheel battle with other drivers, ovals will offer the most of it. Also, the ovals are not all full throttle they need very precise throttle control to get the most out of it.

[carsismeZ06]

@NapalmCandy I think it has something to do with flying around a circuit at 200+ mph and the adrenaline it produces.  Watch the Indy 500 and tell me how many times the cars dip under 200 mph, hell even 210.

[sesselfurzer2000]

@jiminey6969 Sure it's kinda like a death-trap but do you really think that making them lift off the gas will prevent accidents like at Vegas? They will probably lose 10 to 15 mph while lifting off the gas but that won't be enough to keep the cars on the ground. In NASCAR there are roof flaps, in IndyCar they'll have a new car next year which is supposed to keep the cars on the ground and minimize the possibility of getting airborne. And as mentionned before, it's another way of DRIVING a car.

[jiminey6969]

@sesselfurzer2000 and as we saw two weeks after that, pack racing is a deathtrap waiting to happen. give the cars more horsepower, far less downforce, make them lift off the gas, use the brakes and make them DRIVE the cars.

[sesselfurzer2000]

@NapalmCandy The challenge on a road course is to get the most out of the car without crashing and drive good laps consistently. The challenge on an oval is to get the most out of the draft, handle the higher G-forces and the wheel-to-wheel racing. If you watch the IndyCar race on Kentucky Speedway a few weeks ago you'll see that they're literally running two, three wide and wheel-to-wheel. So the challenging parts of road courses and ovals are different, but they're equal in difficulty to run.

[wks1978]

@AdamKhanRs5 Yes but you can't do it when the car has a manual clutch pedal. I think he's just explaining that there is no need to use the clutch with a semi automatic, and therefore the left foot is free to brake.

[godlameroso]

@NapalmCandy

Don't be so concerned with the layout, but with the way people drive on ovals. Sure there are few braking points if at all, however; it's probably more dangerous because you still have to push to go fast, and more than one car can be on any line at any time.

[AdamKhanRs5]

i thought left foot braking is what u are supposed to do anyway

[mikeylikesit2675]

@gturner38 im not a race car driver, and you might be, but i still dont believe you, F1 drivers have to do all that with the same precision, as well as braking, shifting, and throttle control to get the win. Oval driving is tricky, but not more difficult than a road course.

[Blade4613]

@NapalmCandy well i personally agree with you, it's kinda boring watching cars going around for like 400 laps? i know, but some say it's fun to watch, there are lots of overtakes, lead constantly changing all that stuff, i think that now f1 is going to be much more boring than this, at least if somebody crash there it won't get a penality...

[ilovemypetrockbrian]

@BonakiD24

agreed.