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Originally Posted by RayRay88
That in itself is misleading. More mechanical grip will always make you faster but the drag associated with wider tires on a particular vehicle will force a point of diminishing returns. Hence the need for clarifications, facts and removing variables.
The Tire deformation that you’re trying to illustrate will vary from car to car and tire to tire and wheel size to wheel size. Load, pressure and tire construction will all effect your contact patch. I will say that the deformation you’re getting will be drastically reduced by going to a larger diameter wheel with the same tire. Not to mention you would receive sharper feedback and increased roll stiffness.
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That is 100% false. More mechanical grip will not always make you faster, it can easily make you slower. If more mechanical grip always made you faster everyone who raced would try to cram 300+ width tires onto their cars.
Everything is a compromise. Everything you change on your car affects everything else. The entire point of this thread is to make people actually think about what they are doing, and not automatically decide to cram the absolute largest wheels and tires they can afford on this car. Why is that so hard to figure out?