You have to know how to ease your car around the track, braking at just the right time and flooring the accelerator at other moments.

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In the high performance-driving classes, drivers work on autocross, skid pad control and threshold braking, as well as spend lap time on the racetrack.

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It would be the first time a Mars-bound craft uses the braking maneuver.

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As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.

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And unless an electric bike has regenerative braking, which lets the motor help slow you down while charging the battery at the same time, expect to change the brake pads more often than on a standard bike.

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The two-time world champion was not helped by a wobble when he touched the painted white line under braking coming into Turn 12.

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