The best use of left-footed braking I ever heard of was when Jim Hall used to build and race his Chevy-powered Can-Am cars that, for a while at least, used a two-speed automatic transmission. He would prevent following drivers from going to school on him by using his left foot on the brake just as he was starting his drive out of a turn. Even the best drivers could not resist backing out when they saw his brake lights go on right in front of them. By the time they recovered, Hall would have opened up a big gap.
No, I never was privileged to share a race track with Jim Hall; I read about it on the internet, or whatever preceded it back in the late '60s.
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