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The first topic I am going to write about is trail braking. I am a big proponent of trail braking, particularly in a car that likes to understeer when the front end is unloaded due to application of throttle. I am aware that that sentence doesn't really make sense. Most of my track driving experience is in 911s, and my experience with 911s has been that they tend to understeer no matter how gently the throttle is moved from closed to full accelerating out of a turn. 911s though, as is widely known, tend to oversteer when trailing throttle, or trailing the brake. It has been my experience though that to minimize corner exit understeer, the brakes need to be trailed off deep into the corner and the oversteer during the early part of the corner used to get the car turned in so that the throttle can be applied fully late in the corner. Maybe other people's understanding of trail braking is different, but I feel like what I just described is counter to my understanding of trail braking. It seems that usually the reason one decides to trail brake is to help the car turn in, in the initial part of the turn. A well set up 911, has no problem turning in, in fact its usually a bit of a battle to keep it from turning in right in to a spin in the early part of a corner. But using trail braking to get that turn in done is critical to creating a situation where the throttle can be opened relatively quickly without a lot of corner exit understeer. That all said, I am now driving a Boxster, and one of the things I am having a hard time coming to grips with is that I can't always use full throttle late in the corner because the car oversteers. I am still trail braking deep into the corner and then going to throttle relatively quickly, but sometimes having to back out of the throttle because of oversteer. This makes me wonder if I should do less trail braking, try to let the car understeer a little more on corner entry then use throttle to rotate the car later in the corner. This would be the exact opposite of how I drove my 911, and if that is the correct thing to do, its no wonder I am struggling to change my technique after years of developing it. So, I think what I need to try is: Come off the brakes a little sooner, and a little more abruptly than I am used to, and then go to throttle progressively, but more early in the turn than feels right, more early than my instinct tells me I should.