if you hear that sound behind you its game over and you’re about to see the back of the car in a second Ayrton Senna’s famous “throttle technique” was not random aggression but a refined way to sense and control traction when exiting a corner. Instead of smoothly applying the accelerator, he made ultra fast, micro “stabs” or pulses of throttle, four to five each second, just enough to nudge the rear tyres to the brink of slip and immediately back off; each pulse was a probe into the limit of grip and a direct feedback mechanism on the evolving grip level. Starting in karting long before turbo F1, Senna inherited this binary throttle, feel based style from youth and refined it throughout his career, it wasn’t about spooling a turbo but about tuning his feel for balance in real time. By alternating throttle taps with tiny steering corrections, he used throttle to celebrate weight transfer and rotate the car more precisely than most drivers relying only on smooth entry or aerodynamic ...