Hi,
Been thinking about this for a while and can't seem to find a good answer, so I thought I'd ask here.
I'm not a petrol-head or speed-freak so I could be completely missing the point, anyway, here goes....
I always thought faster production-cars had low profile tyres to enable them to corner quicker and more precisely as there was less side-wall movement when turning sharply.
Touring Cars, for example, have low profile tyres for this reason.
Why is it then that F1 car tyres still seem to have fairly large side walls? Surely low profiles would allow faster cornering?
Thanks in advance.
Been thinking about this for a while and can't seem to find a good answer, so I thought I'd ask here.
I'm not a petrol-head or speed-freak so I could be completely missing the point, anyway, here goes....
I always thought faster production-cars had low profile tyres to enable them to corner quicker and more precisely as there was less side-wall movement when turning sharply.
Touring Cars, for example, have low profile tyres for this reason.
Why is it then that F1 car tyres still seem to have fairly large side walls? Surely low profiles would allow faster cornering?
Thanks in advance.