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Race drivers all trailbrake at least a tad. I trailbrake most corners, excepting fast downhill corners where oversteer is already present and I'd rather not complicate matters.
MR put it the simplest... you just keep the brakes on as you initiate corner turn-in. It helps to get the car to rotate and also decreases the amount of braking distance before the corner. (Slightly, so don't go knocking 90 feet off your braking distance and expect late braking to save you.)
I dunno if you read any of the other articles, but that's a pretty good website.
edit: even crazier, it seems to be directed towards a bunch of video gamers....."ToCA Race Driver". I've never heard of it...not that me saying that means much.
um... actually, trailbraking can be a way to initiate a drift. Just brake a little harder as you turn in, and voila, you're sideways (or understeering if your car has terrible balance, or has a locked rear-end, in some cases...). It's a tricky art to master, *especially* when heel-and-toeing at the same time. Gotta be smoooooooth.
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