F1 Champions braking techniques.

[RobGT81]

Interesting article. Cool that Brembo has this amount of experience to call upon.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/the-real-differe...

[998420]

Shame it is such a lightweight article, it had the potential to be a truly great read.

[andburg]

great to read this from Brembo

I seem to recall pundits many time mentioning that Hamilton has a very different braking style to everyone else and hitting them as hard and fast as possibly then slowly releasing to optimum

Would be great to see this sort of comment across the whole current grid!

[998420]

Gaz. said:

Is it not a small a taster from a book?

I would love it if you are right.

As a layman it is very interesting that such different techniques can work, I only really know a bit about bikes and Hamilton's technique is the opposite of how you brake on a bike.

[MissChief]

Rubens Barrichello was one of the last to brake with his right foot. Everyone else on the grid at the time and now left foot brakes.

[thegreenhell]

998420 said:

Gaz. said:

Is it not a small a taster from a book?

I would love it if you are right.

Did you read the article?

"In a book Brembo has published to mark its time in F1 – with the clever title 'Unstoppable' – it revealed some brilliant background on the way that many of grand prix racing's superstars approach dealing with the braking aspects of cars."

[Dr G]

Yup, linky:

http://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/unstoppable

[DanielSan]

MissChief said:

Rubens Barrichello was one of the last to brake with his right foot. Everyone else on the grid at the time and now left foot brakes.

A lot easier when there's only 2 pedals even in most junior formulae now. Rubens came from manual boxes and peddle clutches. I think Hakkinen used to right foot brake aswell or I've made that up in my head. Can't remember.

[markcoznottz]

DanielSan said:

MissChief said:

Rubens Barrichello was one of the last to brake with his right foot. Everyone else on the grid at the time and now left foot brakes.

A lot easier when there's only 2 pedals even in most junior formulae now. Rubens came from manual boxes and peddle clutches. I think Hakkinen used to right foot brake aswell or I've made that up in my head. Can't remember.

Neither of them can have done since they went to high noses. Just for reference last manual f1 car 1995. With a semi auto left foot braking far superior to heel and toe, ( all things being equal).

[998420]

thegreenhell said:

Did you read the article?

"In a book Brembo has published to mark its time in F1 – with the clever title 'Unstoppable' – it revealed some brilliant background on the way that many of grand prix racing's superstars approach dealing with the braking aspects of cars."

Yes, but what I meant was that I hope the " taster" is unrepresentative of the book, that the book offers a proper, in depth appraisal, not this "Millennial Journalism" ..i.e. shallow puffy nonsense that told us nothing of interest

[Leroy902]

Those comments people below these articles...

Trolls to put it lightly, though I seem to remember Ph going through something similar afew years back when anymore mentioned his name

.

[Podie]

Struggling to find anyone selling the book though

[ralphrj]

markcoznottz said:

DanielSan said:

MissChief said:

Rubens Barrichello was one of the last to brake with his right foot. Everyone else on the grid at the time and now left foot brakes.

A lot easier when there's only 2 pedals even in most junior formulae now. Rubens came from manual boxes and peddle clutches. I think Hakkinen used to right foot brake aswell or I've made that up in my head. Can't remember.

Neither of them can have done since they went to high noses. Just for reference last manual f1 car 1995. With a semi auto left foot braking far superior to heel and toe, ( all things being equal).

Barrichello never raced a manual F1 car (the Jordan 193 was a semi-auto) but he was late to switch to left foot braking (sometime during his stint at Ferrari I think).

[catfood12]

Podie said:

Struggling to find anyone selling the book though

Yes, I've come across this problem too. Gazetta Store, who are the publishers, won't ship outside of Italy.

Twunts.

[FunkyNige]

Managed to get a copy of this book (would've got a few more copies to sell on in this country but I got moaned at enough for using up luggage weight ), what you get for each driver is about 8 pages of blurb and pictures about the driver then a single paragraph about the braking. The text in the article in the OP is all the text there is for those drivers so if you're looking for a book about how people brake I wouldn't recommend, but the text is interesting and pictures are great.