You ain't gettin it, Jeff. This is n't somethin that we're making up. It's more like this:
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get it?
-Fred W
You ain't gettin it, Jeff. This is n't somethin that we're making up. It's more like this:
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get it?
-Fred W
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...at any given tyre pressure - it's the air that bears the load.
Lowering the pressure lets the tyre flatten more increasing the area of the contact patch, and vice versa.
My B10's 265/35 R18s at 3.0 bar actually have smaller contact patches than the narrower tyres fitted as standard to a 523 running at lower pressures.
The extra grip is down to the tyres generating bigger slip-angles due to the shape of the contact patch (plus stiffer sidewalls, sticky compound (with OE Michelin Pilot Sports or similar), progressive rate springs and twin-tube dampers tuned for the wheel/tyre combo).
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