I find ABS to be the most helpful when I'm entering a corner trailbraking, and I want the outside front wheel to be braking at max capacity rather than the inside front wheel. You can't do that with
I hear that from people often, but IMO that's ABS allowing you to make a mistake. If you (general) are max-braking that far into a corner, I'm passing you on the way out, 'cause I've been off the bra
Spending time when you're not at max acceleration, max braking, or max cornering is rarely the fastest way around the track... With swaybars and all, you don't need to be wanting to brake much befor
Author: Matt Trebelhorn <matt.lists@trebelhorn.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:14:21 -0500
That's exactly the point at which a poorly-designed ABS system will engage ice mode, and release the brakes on all four wheels. I seem to remember the latest Toyota MR2 doing that in autox trim... __
But it's still slower, for a reason you touched on in your first sentence. Ideally, we want to be at max acceleration all the time. Obviously, we occasionally have to slow down, but when we do, we wa