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Originally Posted by autobrz
I've never seen a car that becomes more understeery at higher speeds. It always becomes looser as the speeds increase.
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I don't think so.
Obviously, your personal experience has convinced you that this is true. I cannot argue with your personal experience, nor would I.
But your general assertion that modern cars suffer increased final oversteer as the speeds increase is simply false. You are mistaken.
It would be a disservice to the readers of these forums to allow this to go unchallenged.
I ask you to produce authoritative proof of your assertion on a broad, general scale.
Perhaps you could provide the links to, and quotes from, major automobile magazine road test reviews that support your assertion about road cars sold to the general public. The writers would surely warn the general public about such a dangerous and undesirable trait, were it present in ANY road cars they tested. They would surely say so.
Quote them, please, if you can find any such reviews.
I have never seen such a description of a road car in more than 50 years of reading automobile magazines. Probably because road cars are NOT sold with such a setup, not to the general public they're not.
Even Mark Donohue said he would steer clear of a loose setup until he'd done a ton of testing, felt truly comfortable with the car at speed, and then would change the setup to just a bit loose, and that would be for a flat-out attempt to gain the pole. It's not the ideal race setup. Too twitchy, too dangerous, too foolish. (Donohue was one of America's finest racing drivers.)
Having to "save your life" at every fast corner gets tiring and slows one down over the course of a race.
Street cars are setup FAR more CONSERVATIVELY than race cars. I trust that requires no explanation.
Average street drivers haven't a hope of keeping up with a car that oversteers in fast corners.
Fortunately, they don't need to.