Left-foot braking is a technique that you can use with your front wheel drive car. It will help you during cornering while you are going at high speeds. Left foot braking technique prevents the understeer situation. Driving at high speeds, if you try to turn sharply at a corner, the car won’t behave the right way as you might have thought. Instead it will go in the same direction. Such a situation is called a understeer. Using the left foot braking technique you’ll be providing the car some grip at its front wheels, more than in the rear wheels. This will help you to turn the car the way you wanted.

While you are at the turn, start slowing down the car a bit. Apply the brake using your right foot. Now, you may downshift the car, and for this you may use the heel and toe downshifting method. Once you do that, take your right foot from the brake and place it over the accelerator. Don’t pull of your foot from the accelerator now. Apply brake using your left foot. And you must do both these steps together. These are the things that you should be doing efore using the technique known as letf-foot braking. Now let’s get into left-foot braking.

You may use the method explained above in order to slow down the car as it reached near the turn. Now, as you reach the corner, you may use your right foot to hit the gas and at the same time you should be planning to apply brake using the other foot. What it does is that – it will lock down the rear wheels and now only the front wheels will be moving. This way, the weight of the car will be transferred to the front wheels. Thus, the front wheels would be getting much better grip than earlier. This is what we were trying to achieve at the beginning. Now we are in a situation which is known as oversteering. And now the car will start to oversteer. This is what you have to do, if you are going at high speed and wanna take a sharp turn at the corner.