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Originally Posted by chrisl
They don't understeer either. Ideally, you want a car to be as neutral as possible, with a very slight tendency to oversteer or understeer depending on driver preference. You definitely don't want a significant amount of either oversteer or understeer though, since it causes you to lose a lot of performance.
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Absolutely they understeer just watch the onboard camera shots from the driving position. The understeer is obvious.
You are correct that you want all four tires working at optimum but "neutral" handling doesn't exist. The more powerful the engine the more understeer has to be dialled in to make best use of all four tires.
For the road you want understeer so that you can throw the car into a corner knowing you have options if the corner turns out to be different than you expected, something completely different from track driving requirements.
Good track cars rarely make good road cars for this and other reasons.