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Old 11-21-2005, 01:36 AM   #4
jmott
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Originally Posted by thunderchicken
Today my wife and I went and watched Auto X and noticed that the STi's cornered flatter than the EVO's and the WRX which had seemed to always 3 wheel it in almost every corner. Is that because of the suspentions on the 2? It looks cools but isn't the best or fastest way around the course.

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putting pepe boys tires on a car will make it corner flatter.
so will driving it slow.

and race tires will make a lot of stock cars 3 wheel.

Sometimes lifting a tire is the fastest way around the course given the constraints of the rules. More grip would be available if you could magically reduce the weight transfer, but sometimes you can't given the rules or other needs of the car.

Its a complicated question but basically nothing can be judged about a car by looking at whether or not it picks up a wheel. BMWs and Porsches will pick up wheels all the time and go silly fast, corvettes almost never pick up a wheel and are silly fast.
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