Braking like an F1 star

[jbcollier]

As in braking in the wet at high speed and having the fronts lock due to insufficient weight transfer.  As Humphrey Bogart famously proclaims, just before the tower blows up, “Look at me Mama, I’m on top of the world!”

No worries, had the sense, and room, to release and reapply the brakes even more gradually before doom irrevokeably descended.  Still got me thinking that fitting bigger front brakes maybe wasn’t next on the list of things to do…

[jbcollier]

Another friendly Lotus owner corrected me.  It was James Cagney in White Heat who was on top of the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjzKiEs_pHI

[BDA]

The minimal weight in the front does have its own “quirks.” Slippery roads make it worse. I have only had the problem at low speeds. A panic jab at the brakes at low speed can be pretty dramatic with lots of tire smoke!

In spite of my upgrading my brakes, I don’t think the stock brakes, at least for the TC, are undersized. After all, the Jensen Motors race car did pretty well with solid GT6 front brakes.