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Old 02-24-2018, 05:58 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by jamal View Post
If front and rear tires are at the same slip angle, and you add power to the rear, that increases the rear slip angle relative to the front.
As you get on the gas while cornering, the fronts become unloaded and they see reduced grip and increased slip angle. Meanwhile the rears are loaded up more and can produce more lateral grip, even if they're expending some of that additional grip to accelerate the car.

Yes, ultimately power-on oversteer is a thing (though not so much with 150 lb-ft of 2.0 na fury...), but in general getting ON the gas induces UNDERsteer, and getting OFF the gas induces OVERsteer.

This is performance driving 101...
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