Senna’s unique throttle technique (Honda demo)

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I always thought his unusual on off the throttle technique was specific to the turbo era F1 cars.

But here he is doing it (and it being analysed) in a lovely old clip of him testing an early race prepared vtec Works Civic.

So was he using this method in all his cars?

Very unusual method.

Watch learn and enjoy!

https://youtu.be/vKLywfzi0xU

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Kraken said:

With an FWD car lifting off the throttle in a corner will generally cause oversteer so can be a good technique to counteract the natural understeer. Most FWD racers I know use throttle lift like this and also trail brake far further into a corner than you would in RWD.

Yes agreed, I race FWD cars and that's what we do to get a faster corner exit, but Senna's technique of repeated stabs of the throttle is quite different, and very unusual. I knew he did this but never expected to see him doing the same thing in a FWD.