force does not equal weight.when the car is driving along and generating downforce there is indeed additional load on the tyres but only downwards.
when the car comes to a corner this force is still only transmitted downwards to assist with grip. if you were driving a car that applied the same amount of pressure downwards when driving in a straight line because it weighed more, you would have considerabley more momentum to change direction when you came to a corner and its cornering abilities would be way below that of a car that generated the downwards pressure through its tyres using downforce.in the 5th gear feature, the reason that the f1 car suddenly lept ahead of the bike was that the bike had so much less power.
initally, off the line, the lighter bike was able to accelerate at a similar rate to the f1 car. as the speeds went up, drag caused by wind resistance starts to play more of a part in acceleration rates than mass and thats when the significantly more powerful f1 engine let the f1 car continue accelerating much faster than the bike.
No, you didn't!
Downforce is downforce, mate
And we're not even taking into account the extra drag from converting air speed into downforce.
Bottom line is, those wide tyres don't work unless they've got some severe weight on them.
Did you see a feature that
4G cornering, anyone??
