How to Drift: Left Foot Brake

[@HaugenRacing]

This is the beginning of left foot braking and I hope it helps intro the technique to many of you! Hope you'll subscribe if you're new here!

[@nyftn]

i my rig i can left foot brake . then i try again in my car and i still slam on it rofl

[@ssbradbery]

dude, keep dropping the viral videos. I have already noticed an improvement in my sim drifting; can't wait to get some tandems in with you on AC. Cant wait to try drifting IRL.

[@HaugenRacing]

Hell yes dude! Glad we can help! Can't wait to see you shred!

[@thesprawl2361]

Subbed :) There are so few videos on YT that genuinely explain the more advanced stuff, never mind ones that do it well. There are hundreds of 'advanced drifting tips' videos that show me how to pull the handbrake to initiate a drift, or that the clutch can often be useful, or that in order to drift you need to control the throttle and move the big round thing that's in front of your seat - but genuinely advanced techniques being explained in a video is really rare. So basically, please keep doing these videos.

[@shaneroberts8668]

Glad to see you having a blast out in Vegas too 🥳

[@HaugenRacing]

Ahaha yesiirrrr! Had to visit my Vegas fam!

[@deresolute1061]

I've spent a couple months getting myself used to left foot brake in Assetto and my tandems are door to door. Absolutely one of the must learn things of drifting. I'm even unconsciously doing it in real life as well when parking extremely right to other cars in my driveway lol

[@trymetomato_8488]

started sim drifting recently and have been coming back to these older videos for tips to improve my driving

[@HaugenRacing]

Glad to hear that man!!

[@BabyMandingo]

I have been sim racing and auto racing for a few years now and have gotten so much better at left foot braking but when and how to use it in drifting i am struggling immensely with and this helped! I feel like i am starting to understand clutch kick as well but once again, another struggle lol. Love the irl and sim bids my man, keep it up!

[@copperbruh1415]

Very late reply but about clutch kicking . Clutch kicking is based off of experience your hearing and overall sense of the car. If you know the right timing and when clutch kicking is necessary you will definitely improve . For example. When you enter and clutch kick , if it’s too late your dead , too early probably also dead . Really get down timing and not only clutch kicking will be easier but same with a lot of skills

[@larryhaugen4295]

Really diggin the VANS!

[@HaugenRacing]

We need that @Vans partnership!

[@AntonMonster]

I learned about left foot braking when I were interested in circuit racing , before I started learning stuff about drifting. Boy I glad I learned that before. It’s not hard to not slam brakes like it’s a clutch pedal.

[@olivierd8296]

Yes was looking for good content for 20 mins just poping up perfect timing

[@HaugenRacing]

Perfect! ahah

[@JPT_Jpt]

Nice, I don’t even have a car, or the age, but I watch these because they are interesting

[@HaugenRacing]

Hey well when you get a car you'll be ready to shred!!!!

[@JPT_Jpt]

@@HaugenRacing yes

[@theonlywalltostareat5808]

@@HaugenRacing i watch these because the car is beautiful and i wanna watch u drift with it

[@chaserfanboii6455]

@@theonlywalltostareat5808 drift your car too😈

[@chetansingh3219]

This is true and coming right from the heart. You drift really well and I love it

[@HaugenRacing]

Yesiiirrr!

[@Lou3JLM86]

Definitely gonna be a pro with all this dope content 💯🔥🙏🏼 keep grinding 💪🏼

[@HaugenRacing]

You already know!

[@magical5181]

Great video! I think this was actually my request haha, anyways good shit, keep at it!

[@HaugenRacing]

Ahaha yeah its a technique we for sure had to cover!!!

[@emiliolee5751]

Every single time I try this I slam the brakes 😂 😂

[@HaugenRacing]

Hahaha gotta easeeeeee into it man!

[@Phil60084]

Make sure your heel is planted before you try left foot braking. Makes it waaaayyy more controllable.

[@mickey2ky]

Get the led out dude lol

[@thewheelman1993]

Practice on a sim lol i do a lot on forza motorsports 7

[@HuyTran-ol9rg]

Same bro. I even practiced on a sim but it's definitely not the same.

[@lindvi0r]

Great video with pedals cams! When's the right time to use left foot braking vs hand braking?

[@kingkilson6914]

What a great video I swear I feel like I can get in my g rn and hit a sharp ass line with a crazy entry with left foot breaking 😂🔥

[@Im_irish-ly3rp]

You are unreal at drifting man keep up the good work man 👌🏻🤙🏻

[@HaugenRacing]

Appreciate it!!

[@JandM_Landscape22]

How can you see out the windows with all them stickers my guy, do you have any problems with them?

[@omgvague]

His preferred angle is sideways so, through the windows?

[@HaugenRacing]

^^^^ Exactly!

[@aftrnoon_ac]

good thing I'm learning this in Forza Horizon 4 in low hp S13 wheel tune I'm building and tuning

[@HaugenRacing]

Lessgooooo same technique would apply for sim stuff!

[@aftrnoon_ac]

@@HaugenRacing Nice! it actually helps

[@JTheMan1]

All those stickets on the windshield 😂 reminds of when ricky bobby sold the windshiel 😂😂

[@GorrillaFastTv]

Damn this always came easy for me I always knew it’ll come in handy

[@logangivens9483]

Nice vid 👍🏻 Keep up the great content.

[@HaugenRacing]

Thanks, will do!

[@d1zguy864]

I did some left foot braking, feint entry, and never used the e-brake on my vids( mismatched crap brake pads very inconsistent one wheel locks up and not the other) got myself some project mu D1 pads and gk tek ebrake angle brackets

[@shaneroberts8668]

Do you prefer a manual booster or do you run power brakes in most of your cars?

[@HaugenRacing]

Dependddsss, this one has the stock system!

[@garrettpartain6625]

This the most lit channel on the app

[@jugadsandhu9395]

Totaly random question: What are your favorite shoes for drifting what would you recommend?

[@chetansingh3219]

Bro just put on some flip flops

[@HaugenRacing]

lol Vans for practice tbh! They work decent but comps for sure like some dedicated driving shoes!

[@24kNick]

@@HaugenRacing you should test out piloti shoes . See if it’s a good all around shoe for track , sim , and casual

[@darkizofficial]

Advance tehnic? I'm using these for years, honestly i'm scared to use handbrake while drifting.

[@thesprawl2361]

Left foot braking is something I feel like you just naturally pick up in drifting as you push yourself. You slow down for a corner with the brake and you realise that when you're beyond a certain angle the back end flips out*(so you probably end up in the grass or the hoardings the first few times that happens), and from there you just realise that that's something you can actually use as a technique. It's like skidding to a halt on your BMX as a kid and flipping the back wheel around as you stop. Same principle: the weight lifts off the back wheel and onto the front, meaning traction is decreased at the back and increased at the front, so you can really flip the back around quickly. But I'd need to be know physics properly to be able to explain what's happening with small, delicate left foot brake inputs, like the ones you use when drifting really precisely. It definitely seems like something that, like you say, you never really master because it's just another way of precisely controlling the car, and you're never going to perfectly master that either. I only drift in Assetto and BeamNG, so I've no idea whether any of the stuff I do in these spaces will translate that well to the real world, but I can at least tell you that it works in the opposite direction: the real life techniques really work in Assetto and to a lesser extent BeamNG. It is a technique that I've genuinely heard some people who do these kinds of 'learn to drift' videos describe as 'not necessary', which I do not understand at all. It's crucial, and it gets more crucial the more power the car has. *I think because when you brake the weight is shifted forward, away from the back wheels and onto the front ones which makes the back end slipperier and the front end grippier

[@kaybevang536]

In the 90s the Silvia’s and 86 and Starlets where one of the most perfect cars for the braking drifts essentially a Keichi Tsuchiya like style drift especially his no E brake style drift when he uses only inertia and brake petal only

[@brandonhalvorsen2185]

Technical question: If you have a heavier car, do you need higher horsepower when drifting? Like would my 300ZX need more than say a 240SX to achieve the same results? Or since it's grip limited does it kind of even out? Love the content my dude.

[@IndigenousAmericanTrucker]

Does this same technique apply in an automatic?

[@pietrako]

Got to remove air from my break first 😅😅😅

[@zidaaneprendergast4131]

question how do you see trougth so much sickers

[@HaugenRacing]

Lol gotta look out the side windows!

[@1gooey968]

Would it be beneficial to use a line lock to cut the rear calipers off from braking while doing left foot braking?

[@kamorx9624]

Need help asap do i need breaks in all 4 wheels or just front 2

[@Paimonchuchuchu]

how do you see the road with all those stickers on your windshield?

[@cam-cs4sg]

Hey man I can’t really get your attention in other vids but I got a great graphics preset for assetto for u, I’ll link it just lmk if u want it, great vid!

[@HaugenRacing]

Hit us up on ig dawg!

[@cam-cs4sg]

@@HaugenRacing alrighty man! I’ll send u a message in a bit with the link, it’s a acstuff link so u just click on it and it opens in content manager, cant wait to see your opinion on it

[@cam-cs4sg]

@@HaugenRacing just sent the message man! My ig @ is DiDonato.cam- you’ll see it

[@alvaro-4519]

@@cam-cs4sg Hey man if you dont mind me asking what do you mean by preset?

[@cam-cs4sg]

@@alvaro-4519 it’s a preset for content manager, I put a lot of work into it and it’s astounding how much you can get out of assetto with custom shaders patch

[@salve1185]

why do you need to left foot brake? is it not possible to brake with using just the right foot only?

[@Flahh_h08]

i found you should try left foot braking first in a sim then try in real live

[@filipebeat]

1:46 😂 i did it one time with my old dad in da car

[@MrMjrcruz]

Drifting with ABS on or off?

[@HaugenRacing]

Always disable or delete abs on drift cars

[@wallmagnetracing8052]

does the tezza have enough power for this?

[@HaugenRacing]

Wait huh?

[@wallmagnetracing8052]

@@HaugenRacing altezza lol u may not remember but i asked if the tezza (altezza) is a good drift car back a couple of vids so yea lol

[@BattTube]

How you drive that car with all the stickers alone is beyond me.

[@realmichaeltian]

I feel like left foot braking has become a huge crutch for me especially when trying to hold angle (by swinging the rear around further). I noticed this when i started drifting in a real car in snow

[@streebadrift5059]

Is it ok to right foot brake I tend to do that more frequently than left foot brake when drifting and its comfortable for me no cap

[@HaugenRacing]

Ya 100%. Left foot brake should only be used when you need to be on throttle at the same time. Otherwise stick with right foot

[@dnty1631]

Road to 50k🤟🎉

[@HaugenRacing]

So close!

[@TesiKiks_NewGame]

Left foot braking on and ff does it do something?

[@jefffinke8225]

Anyone know why my pedal intermittently is rock hard when left foot braking? Its scary as hell almost caused a couple crashes. Its not every time either. Is it booster related?

[@mukhammadkholmirzaev2387]

Q: how much horses does your car have?

[@HaugenRacing]

This ones like arounndddd 200?

[@Vgk36]

@@HaugenRacing I have a s14 with a SR20det swap and a new turbo on it . I love the sr and I'm leaving well enough alone. Not modding the engine to make more power . I just want it to stay alive . I think I'll be going full standalone ECU that way I can lower the rev limiter a little bit. Don't want to break rocker arms and be down . I think this is a fairly safe way to go about it ?

[@mukhammadkholmirzaev2387]

@@HaugenRacing niceeeeee

[@HaugenRacing]

@VGK30 yeah seems safe enough! Just keep in mind, with drifting stuff is bound to break sooner or later no matter what, but yeah that would 10/10 give you the most life possible!

[@imkingordie5958]

I think practicing left foot braking in your daily driving will help out too!

[@Gravitysnap101]

Do a backflip

[@HaugenRacing]

*Back flips the whole missile

[@Gravitysnap101]

@@HaugenRacing now that’s a viral video

[@kivengamer6313]

Go react to animal z formula drift season with his s15 a good livery that people like

[@kivengamer6313]

Adam lz

[@HaugenRacing]

We will eventually!

[@alfie3127]

Early😏😏

[@HaugenRacing]

Savage!

[@theflipper_]

How can you even see through that windscreen lol

[@HaugenRacing]

Gotta look out the side windows dawg!!! Thro dat angle!

[@fulltiltwill1]

Can watch ty skiddz he a good carx drifter but he go's for looks

[@lelandlee9648]

Try it in a sim, if you have access to one.

[@HaugenRacing]

got 55 sim videos and posting two a week! check out the playlist! kzbin.info/aero/PL5XON6_UeVySvyt4B4nbozx_5oq5uCZxM

[@hyperchase1236]

Hello

[@HaugenRacing]

Heelllllloooooo!

[@erikssavrasevics1635]

69/31 ... Have you made a video talking about suspension setups, camber, toe, dampers, tyres?

[@kiwifruit5861]

6:16 no one:…. Walter jr

[@yahboi7137]

Yoo

[@HaugenRacing]

YO!!

[@roche1517]

Did you know that this is in fr legends physics I didn't know that you. Guys do that ever thing you said the game does /go try it

[@gustng]

I tought that every one braked with left foot lol. Probably because when i got my sim first thing i started was drifting and it just felt easier

[@HavelinDesign]

you need to use it for the clutch more then

[@akumayuu8726]

Me watching this video to drift in a racing simulator: 🤔

[@skipperdrifter6630]

learning left foot braking in underpowered cars isn't that effective

[@HaugenRacing]

Ehhhhh depends man, HP isn't the end all be all, like it does vary when to bust the technique out.

[@loganbergeron8866]

how the hell do u see out of your car

[@HaugenRacing]

W/ ma eyeballs lolol

[@loganbergeron8866]

@@HaugenRacing i like it

[@_bug-xf1to]

Ok

[@HaugenRacing]

OK!

[@eli_r6514]

Algorithm

[@HaugenRacing]

Algorithm?

[@cvjunior0305]

I don’t think I’ll be able to drift my stock v6 camaro no matter what I do lmao

[@JER112]

Pls react to ya boy toxic reverse drifting videos

[@HaugenRacing]

We'll check him out!!!

[@zuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh3758]

advanced? im naturally used to left foot braking

[@kuratchi544]

Help, my ipad is broken because i clicked too fast

[@HaugenRacing]

Ahahah sorry fam!

[@kuratchi544]

@Jihad Pack not just an ipad... *one from 2017*

[@kuratchi544]

@Jihad Pack i think they still make them

[@domjdm5007]

213like

[@s20091504]

There are so much sh1t on the glass I can't even see through.

[@jadensmith7496]

Your not a pro

[@SlMORRG]

Left foot is best. The reaction time in using your right foot to brake, is dangerous. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to brake with the foot that you use to apply pressure to gas pedal. Always use left foot braking. Even in your daily drivers.

[@colin_g]

First time you try left foot braking make sure there's no one behind you 😂 I tried it pulling up to a stop sign and nearly went through my front windshield

[@HaugenRacing]

Ahahah yeah man it can be really sketchy if your not careful!