Schumi VS Barichello - Driving Techniques

[Lartymarf]

Interesting stuff re left foot braking.

http://mlounge.home.comcast.net/telemetry/F1.html

[rumatt]

Wow, that's cool info.

In 30 seconds of looking at it, I didn't get the bottom line conclusion though... I'll look again later when I have more time.

[Plaz]

Fascinating!

[ayn]

That's really cool.

[clyde]

Wow, that's cool info.

In 30 seconds of looking at it, I didn't get the bottom line conclusion though... I'll look again later when I have more time.

The conlcusions you can draw from those traces are that Schu is a left foot braker, brakes later, brakes harder, carries more speed through the turn and gets on the gas sooner at corner exit.

They don't tell us if left foot braking is allowing him to brake later and harder. Barc obviously could have braked harder but didn't...and based on Shu's traces, it doesn't look like he had to since he hit Vmin a the same place and Barc was already off the brakes by then.

They also don't tell us if left foot braking helped Shu get back on the gas sooner since he comes completely off both pedals for a time.

Interesting, but not terribly informative.