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Originally Posted by 86 South Africa
I too used to think wider = more grip. Then I watched and read some stuff... educayshun teaches you to read good and about stuff. Do it.
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Wider DOES = more lateral grip (to a point) when you account for everything. It isn't as simple as arguing that the contact patch is the same. Otherwise people wouldn't be running wider tires in autocross events.
Also, Engineering Explained annoys the shit out of me. He does a great job of explaining some fundamentals, but his tests are never anything CLOSE to properly scientific. I wouldn't mind that so much if people understood this, but instead people treat his test results like gospel, whereas any proper researcher would LAUGH at the suggestion that his test results were truly accurate. It isn't his fault, as he doesn't have the resources to do a proper test, but that doesn't mean we should just ignore the fact that some of his tests are almost silly in how unscientific they are. They're just meant to be interesting tests that attempt to get some sort of standardized result, but they're FAR from accurate, and they are always hawked as the be-all, end-all of a debate.
The video you linked is a particularly egregious example.