Sentence examples for trail braking from inspiring English sources
A riding technique that takes advantage of how braking increases the downward force on the front wheel is known as trail braking.
They also learn the best racing "line" through a corner, and "trail braking," which is essentially hard, simultaneous heel-and-toe braking, downshifting and turning.
Bomb around a bend at VIR and, as with the Lightning, easy application of trail braking (riding the brake out of the turn with the heel of your right foot while your toes work the gas) is all that's needed to set the rear end.
Rather than using the brakes to slow a car just before and also during a turn (known as trail braking), drivers can switch the car into Hill 1 or 2 (actuated by a paddle shifter on the right side of the steering wheel) and slow the car this way.
Trail braking is also key.
The feedforward longitudinal algorithm applies appropriate amounts of braking force and throttle during cornering to mimic a racecar driver trail-braking into a corner and applying the throttle during corner exit.
While old-timers trained by outrunning revenuers, many of the young "shoes," including Jeff Gordon, Nascar's current superstar, learned their down-shifting and trail-braking at the Skip Barber School, considered the Harvard of racing schools.
Not only does he eat, sleep, breathe and dream engines, propshafts and trail-braking, but the overwhelming quality that struck me about him is that he's just such a pro.
Sure, GT5's handling was advanced enough to enable you to deliberately unsettle the rear end under trail-braking or lift-off oversteer in order to improve corner entry, for instance, but this time around you benefit from a general additional degree of control and, in particular, increased tyre feedback.
Remember how the condition of the trail affects accelerating and braking.
