You can lose time under braking without making a dramatic mistake.

Sometimes the throttle is still open by a few percent when you start braking. Maybe your foot is dragging. Maybe the pedal is not returning perfectly. Maybe you came off the throttle late and never noticed because the pedal UI is not where your eyes are during turn-in.

The car gets mixed instructions: slow down and push at the same time.

That can flatten the braking shape, waste fuel, and cost lap time in places where you thought the corner was already clean.

DRE now has a Braking Overlap Signal for that exact situation.

When DRE detects brake + throttle overlap in a braking zone, it gives a short non-verbal cue. No lecture. No long speech. Just a sound at the moment the overlap happens, so you can connect it to the corner you are driving right now.

Watch it in action

Why this matters

Brake/throttle overlap is sneaky because the numbers can look tiny.

Two or three percent throttle does not feel like much. In the cockpit, it can be hard to tell whether you are fully off the pedal before braking. During a stint, that small overlap can become a repeated habit: every lap, same corner, same little conflict in the inputs.

In testing, quick drivers still found real time here. One case showed nearly 0.2s at Sebring Turn 3. Another driver noticed the same kind of overlap was hurting endurance fuel burn.

That is the point of the signal: catch the mistake while it is still connected to the corner, not after the stint when you are staring at traces and trying to remember what lap 18 felt like.

What DRE listens for

The signal looks for brake + throttle overlap during braking zones.

It is not meant to bark at every tiny pedal movement. DRE ignores quick throttle blips, downshift chatter, and early exit throttle. Once it has sounded for an overlap event, it also avoids chattering through small changes in the same event.

You get the cue when it matters, then it shuts up.

Overlap is not automatically wrong

Some cars, techniques, and situations use overlap on purpose.

This is coachable feedback, not moral judgment. If you drive a car where overlap is normal, or you use it deliberately in a specific scenario, you can treat the cue as information rather than a slap on the wrist.

The useful question is simple: did you mean to do it?

If yes, fine. If not, DRE just found a habit that may be costing braking shape, fuel, or track position.

The first thing it caught

The feature changed how I drove almost immediately.

It exposed a final corner where I was braking too early, adding throttle again, then braking again. In my head, it was one braking zone. In the car, I had split the corner into two braking events without noticing.

That is exactly the kind of thing this signal is good at catching. A small repeatable input mistake that stays hidden because you are busy driving the car.

Configuration

You can find it here:

Car -> Peripherals -> Braking Overlap

The default Pedal Overlap Threshold is 2%.

Ultimate subscribers can tune the threshold. You can also use Pedal Overlap Ignored Cars to exclude cars where overlap is normal or intentional.

Try it on a corner you think is clean

Turn it on, drive a few laps, and pay attention to where the cue appears. If it sounds in the same braking zone more than once, there is probably something useful to look at.

That might be pedal calibration. It might be footwork. It might be a braking point that is earlier than you thought.

Either way, it is better to hear one short cue in the corner than discover the pattern after the race.

Download or update DRE and try it under Car -> Peripherals -> Braking Overlap.