I think some would be surprised at the amount of people who do left foot brake. I have always done this. Once you learn to do it there is all kinds of secrets to make the car do happy things. A little tap or drag on the pedal here and there will make you faster.

we have those in our cars!!

That's awesome!

Here's a video of Sebastian Loen hustling a WTCC car around the Nurburgring. Banging shifts and left foot braking all the way.:)

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-new...-ar169396.html

I drove a lap around the old circuit, once, in a rented Volvo station wagon with two suit cases banging around in back and my wife screaming in the passenger seat. It was still an amazing experience.

I've only been racing autocross heavily for just over a year now and I left foot brake in anything or wherever I drive.

One, is to have that quick response to brakes for stupid everyday drivers....

Second, when dad and I went to the Muscle Car Challenge this last May in Terre Haute, IN area I did left foot brake on the road course but didn't rest my foot on the pedal. I had it off to the side until I needed to use it but on the autocross (not just in IN) I tend to trail brake a bit and/or feather the throttle going into the corner. Whether it is right or wrong that is the way I drive, it's what I have found to work the best and I keep getting faster and faster each time to drive.

Third, I've done it since I got my drivers license....

I don't think in the end it matters which foot you brake with cause the car won't care, it's just how comfortable you feel about which foot you use and how you apply pressure to the brakes with that foot.

The key is pressure. And with practice your left foot can achieve as good a feel as your right

I think people may be using different definitions of left foot braking here. If you are using your left foot to tap the brakes here or there to set the car, I don't consider that left foot braking if you are still using your right foot for braking during downshifts. The question I have here is how many people successfully left foot brake during clutch-assisted downshifts? If so, what is your technique?

If you are using the clutch to downshift, and need to brake at the same time, you have to use your right foot on the brake. Left foot brakers will use the left foot for braking as long as they don't need to do a clutch downshift, then right foot brake when they do need to use the clutch.

Next option is clutch-less shifting, via Jericho or such.

Don't downshift a Jerico "clutchless" going into a corner... even if you're trying to rev match -- I can tell you from personal experience this is VERY upsetting to the car. You can NOT rev match while the clutch is still engaged... therefore when you slam into a lower gear - you get some serious compression braking - it's HARSH and instant and totally unwanted!!

As Bob Bondurant once told me -- The motor is to make the car go forward - the transmission is just a gear selector -- and the brakes are used to take off speed.... Never use the transmission for brakes!

I tested a GTA car with a Jerico and the car owner told me to use the clutch on downshifts as well, so I did. Upshifts were a blast! I'm still trying to figure out this left foot braking thing... I thought everybody used their left foot to balance the car, but I never considered that to be left foot braking. In my mind it's the guy with a sequential gearbox using his left foot coming into a hard braking zone that is a left foot braker.