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Old 30th March 2011, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by trick-kit View Post
Predicting what a tyre does in deflection is a bit of a gray area, as the amount of distortion varies from one make to another, the reason a lot of the more performance orientated vehicles use tyres designed specifically for them, it's not so prices can be fixed but because the chassis designer would have worked closely with that particular tyres characteristics to fine tune the suspension.
So you agree that since real cars have real tires, suspension design is a bit of a gray area, not easily proven by simplistic rigid drawings.
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