New guy: Exactly what is "heel and toe to rev match"

[southernstar]

I find the pedal placement on the Boxster perfect (with the brake pedal depressed, the top part of the accelerator pedal is level with the brake pedal) for using the ball of your foot on the brake pedal and the opposite side of the foot on the top of the accelerator pedal, pivoting side to side, rather than the traditional heel and toe. You may also wish to consider double-clutching (also referred to as double-de-clutching) as, when done properly, the downshifts are butter smooth and put no strain on the synchronizers.

For that one depresses the brake pedal with the ball of your right foot, depresses the clutch and moves the shifter to neutral, releases the clutch and 'blips' the throttle to the appropriate number of RPM's (you will eventually get to know it by sound and feel, keeping in mind that it must initialy be higher than the perfect match of revs for gear engagement, as the revs drop as soon as your foot leaves the accelerator pedal), depress the clutch, move the shifter to the lower gear (when revs are pefectly matched it goes in very easily) and release the clutch. If it sounds difficult, it really isn't and, as has already been mentioned, practise makes perfect.

Enjoy!

Brad

[RoadsideStig]

I'll have a crack at explaining it!

Heel and toeing is a driving technique used mostly in performance driving. Although myself using it more and more in day to day conditions. It involves operating the throttle and brake pedals simultaneously with the right foot, while facilitating normal clutch use with the left foot. It is most commonly used prior to entering a turn, and allows the driver to "blip" the throttle to raise the engine speed and smoothly engage the lower gear.

The advantage of heel and toeing is that often through a corner you must down shift to get into the cars gear powerband, it also avoids the jerking motion of simply downshifting and not raising engine speed. It makes the motion smooth, and often enough smooth tends to be the quickest way around the track!

Hope this helped, Lucas.