Weight Matters

Bruce Jibboo

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Weight Matters – Corner Weighting Your Car Properly Yields Better Handling and Faster Lap Times, so Here’s How to Do It on a Budget

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The vertical loads on your tires have a huge influence on how fast your car can go around the track, and how it responds to your driving style. Those tire loads go up and down from static values that can be measured and adjusted, and those adjustments can dramatically change your car’s behavior. Let’s dig into how and why some quality time in the garage can sharpen your performance at a nice price.

If your car always understeers when turning left and oversteers when turning right, or if the same tire always locks up first while braking, those are signs that you may have a crossweight problem that can be fixed by measuring and adjusting the static tire loads. You can also learn a lot about why your car handles the way it does if you know what the four static tire loads are.

Full Article - https://nasaspeed.news/tech/suspens...-lap-times-so-heres-how-to-do-it-on-a-budget/
 

Thirdgen89GTA

Aka "That Focus RS Guy"
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Most fwd cars will pick up a rear wheel if you put a big enough rear sway bar on them. A lot of the BMWs when pushed hard will pickup the front inside wheel also which is really odd to watch

The ST used to do it all the time.

I don't know if the RS would. But then again, its still got about 60% on the nose, so it could.
 
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