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Originally Posted by Dimman
Actually, I've been going through some of my books and the section I quoted of carbon's is incorrect. A tire's Cf has a curve based on load, and Cf decreases with load. Frictional force will increase with vertical load but it is not proportional.
For example at 500 lbs vertical load a tire may provide 700 lbs of available traction.
But the same tire at 2000 lbs vertical load may only provide 1500 lbs of traction.
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Yes load in that case refers to cornering load or acceleration/deceleration load. More downforce on the tire would shift this whole curve upwards, but not in a linear way.