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Old 03-14-2014, 01:22 PM   #935
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Originally Posted by Dimman View Post

The other problem seems to be the continuous evolution of tires, which seems to exceed the dissemination of general tuning knowledge. I noticed that Hoosier supplies a good deal of information on theirs, such as their effective spring rate at 'x' psi.

right on

if you have so much grip from the tires for a given vehicle power and weight that you don't lose traction, then you might as well not care about any of this and lock up the suspension

if you're approaching a corner at 50kph because that's all you could accelerate at out of the box, and the tires can let you take the corner at that speed, then all this science is moot.

and old buddy of mind commented on the old Group B racers.. that ALL the cars were so capable that the actual road became the limiting factor to their speeds
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