Performance Driving Shoes

OK, you are out with your tuner chaps anddriving shoes can really improve your ability. Next,
they're chatting about heel and toe pedal workyou're wondering what's heel and toe shifting
and you ask yourself, "what is heel & toegood for? heel & toe pedal work can be
pedal work?". You might be mis-lead into believingused for downshifting while drifting through a turn.
that you use your heel to press the gas pedalBy blipping the gas pedal while you're applying the
while using yourbig toe to press the break pedal.break pedal and feathing the clutch pedal, you're
It turns out, the term comes from older carable to downshift while keeping the car's revs up.
engineering, where the gas pedal was on the leftHowever, Mainly it is a technique that allows you
of the pedal assembly and you COULD use yourto downshift smoothly while not having to double
heel with your toe that way. Obviously, thats noclutch or lose power to the rims. It also allows
longer the case. So, the difficulty of performingyou to more quickly put torque and power to the
heel & toe driving is lessened by gettingtires for faster acceleration while keeping the
special performance driving shoes which arevehicle balanced. This is even more true in hi
designed for heel and toe pedal work; hence, heelperformance cars, like the Shelby Cobra Mustang.
and toe performance driving shoes.In fact, Carroll Shelby has a driving shoe design
What you actually do is put the left edge of yourespecially for this type of driving.
right shoe on your brake pedal's right edge. ToRemember: Smooth is fast, smooth is good,
tap the gas, you twist your right ankle and blipsmooth is safe, and correct use of heel &
the gas with the right side of the right shoe.toe, especially with performance driving shoes,
Using the heel & toe technique, performancemakes SMOOTH.