Tyre dynamics (might be of interest)

[Chris71]

Just found this doing some research and found it really useful. It explains some of the more mysterious points of tyre behaviour in a very straightforward way:

http://www.creativecarcontrol.co.uk/modelgrip.htm

Apologies if that seems a bit random, but I was really impressed with it and thought others might be too...

[fergus]

Chris71 said:

Just found this doing some research and found it really useful. It explains some of the more mysterious points of tyre behaviour in a very straightforward way:

http://www.creativecarcontrol.co.uk/modelgrip.htm

Apologies if that seems a bit random, but I was really impressed with it and thought others might be too...

Wait until the bearded one (Don) explains it to you in person! He's very enthusiastic about this topic . He uses it to explain why most people 'over steer' (i.e. hold the steering in place for too long after entering a corner), and thus artificially induce too much slip angle on the tyres for too long.