Why does he pre-tap the brakes before he gets into them hard? There were a couple of instances where he was still in it when he tapped them.

Strain gages with ignition interupt are pretty neat. I only know about them via drag racing.

(I love that track on forza. and I wanna go fishing )

 

You pre-tap before full braking.

In the dry, abrupt breaking in the corners can deflect the wheel bearings, that can knock back or displace the brake pads. You tap the brakes to set the pads back to a near contact point with the rotors before you fully apply the brakes. If you don't, you'll have a soft pedal.

In the wet, well, obviously you're trying to clear the rotors of water.

IIRC

 

beat me to it.

 

I just don't know how reliable using a strain gage is. Yea we need to go fishing.

 

also to make sure you have brakes, boris said does it a lot in nascar races, they always watch his feet lol

 

lol

 

its what the nascar guys say, and I mean just at watkins glen and infineon I know with their pad setups they can shim it so its almost hanging on the caliper to being far away from it. I am no pro like you and OP though

 

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you should probably stop watching nascar if thats really what there saying.

 

Actually he's right. Most racers will brake tap the brakes on big straights to ensure they have brakes before coming into a big deceleration zone. It's more common in high power cars that are going a bunch faster.