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Piloti Driving Shoes | Gearing Your Adventures Since 1999

At Piloti, it all starts with passion. We love cars and we love shoes – and we’re dedicated to bringing to life one-of-a-kind designs that give us the best of both worlds. With a 20 year history of gearing championship drivers for the world’s toughest tracks, it’s our mission to combine the performance of professional race-wear with the co

mfort and casual style of our favourite pair of shoes. A collection of expertly crafted, versatile footwear that is inspired by all things automotive. From sneakers to slip ons, Piloti shoes offer the perfect balance of form and function to gear your adventures both behind the wheel and on foot.

07/15/2026

You have all the puzzle pieces… but can you put them together?

If you make a video explaining it, send it our way!

07/15/2026

We’ve decided this method is the shoe-tying equivalent of a crisp heel toe downshift, and are now wondering if our future interview processes should have a quiz about how you tie your Piloti laces…

While this is officially a joke we thought of while writing this video’s caption, we 100% *can* confirm that breaking out the bunny ears in front of us will be fairly, and politely, shamed.

(It is a low integrity knot and we care about your safety.)

07/15/2026

Mastered the throttle already? Here’s a hidden clutch technique for those who dare try it. 👀

Tutorial by: Coy White

This is the weirdest tip from the drifting world that CAN - but ideally shouldn’t - be used as a tool for many different driving situations…

We all know“Clutch Kicking” can cause a drift. It’s probably one of the first things you noticed watching Tokyo Drift driving scenes for the first time, but when drifting at intermediate/advanced levels it isn’t just for helping lose traction, clutch kicking DURING a drift can actually RECOVER grip when you need it most.

When you open the clutch in drift, the rear tires naturally drop speed to as close to ground speed as possible. The closer you get to static friction (no slip) the better your tires’ rubber generally performs. Then with a slightly higher friction coefficient, RE-engaging the clutch (with lots of extra inertia built up in the flywheel from the engine being allowed to freely rev) applies a forward drive with far more peak force than the engines power output can generate. With all that forward force driving the tires towards the front of the car, the car suspended above the tires leans a LOT of weight briefly on the rear.

Antisquat characteristics in your suspension then takes all those forces, and points them at each other in a way where (to keep it VERY simple) the only direction they can escape is straight down through the tire, momentarily pressing it hard into the road to create even more traction. This is why some cars drag racing look like their trunks move UP when they launch rather than down. If the forces shove the wheel down hard enough and the ground doesn’t move out of the way, the car will instead.

TLDR: For a FRACTION of a second, a clutch kick during slip actually produces a huge spike in traction and driving force that if used at the right times, can allow you to make significant adjustments to your path of travel, or adapt to changing tire or track conditions when it would otherwise be “too late” to save yourself from looking at the road from the scenery... 😅 Cool stuff!

🍙 Happy 7’s Day! 🍙Normalize drifting your show cars at golden hour, like Gerry. (ignore the ending of the video that’s n...
07/08/2026

🍙 Happy 7’s Day! 🍙

Normalize drifting your show cars at golden hour, like Gerry. (ignore the ending of the video that’s not important.)

06/29/2026

“This is not financial advice” -Coy White

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Somewhere in an alternate universe, this is what people mean when they say “Both!” after being asked “Is your car manual or automatic?”

Floating gears and clutchless shifting is often explained as the concept of knowing rpms you should be at for a specific speed, and targeting that RPM while you engage a gear - which is kinda silly and would be 100% useless in any real world scenario, like making it home with a leaking clutch line, or downshifting while on the brakes in a rally car.

The better way to think about it in regular synchromesh cars, is to provide yourself windows where you simply ask the car for the shift, and wait for the car to allow it. You can do this pretty easily by revving a little higher than a normal rev match in neutral, letting those extra revs fall freely, applying pressure towards the gear you want, and waiting until the RPM falls to the speed that lets you into the gear. To avoid grinding and damage, this should ALWAYS be done with RPM’s dropping and 0% throttle. If a gear doesn’t quite engage and you’re hovering on the throttle trying to guess the exact RPM you need, it’s very easy to accidentally send torque through those components at a catastrophic time and find yourself with bonus neutrals… Not to mention it’s generally beneficial to be looking at the road and not your tach.

Now go put your Piloti | Driving Shoes on and learn some new footwork this weekend!

Make motorsport history with the limited-edition Circuit. Created with 24 Hours Of Le Mans and designed for peak perform...
06/11/2026

Make motorsport history with the limited-edition Circuit. Created with 24 Hours Of Le Mans and designed for peak performance

This isn’t just a shoe; it’s a piece of performance equipment.
06/11/2026

This isn’t just a shoe; it’s a piece of performance equipment.

Some things are worth bringing back.
06/10/2026

Some things are worth bringing back.

06/09/2026

The Original driving shoe is back.
Re-engineered for the modern driver, handcrafted in Portugal, and built for the perfect heel-toe.
Discover the Prototipo.

05/12/2026

The Le Mans collection returns.⁠
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Dressed in the distinctive blue that has adorned French racing machines for generations, the Le Mans Shift carries both racing DNA and everyday versatility.

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