TacomaJD
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the physics of all this. I am pro-science, so don't think otherwise. I'm still trying to understand the coefficient of friction thing and how it applies in other areas.You're welcome to go let air out of a tire and watch this miraculous phenomenon for yourself. (-;
What I have described (in both posts in this thread) is well known and well demonstrated in tires, both on-road and off-.
Like take rock crawling for example. I was big into crawling for about 6 years. #1 cheapest/easiest thing to do to improve offroad performance is to air down. This increases contact patch, but I guess moreso allows tire to conform to the object it treading on. The tire doesn't spin and rotates very slowly, so how does the whole object of managing heat work there? There is very little heat created unless you cant make it up the obstacle, then you roast the tires for a minute, they heat up, become more sticky, then walk right up the obstacle with no problem. Same with drag tires, heat them up by burnouts to achieve optimal stickiness for the best launch. This is all very interesting to me, as I like to figure out how things work.
Old rock crawling vid below from a few yrs back for entertainment purposes, and also example of what I am talking about. The tires I ran were BFGoodrich red label Krawlers (stickies). Wasn't so much that they were soft compound, because there are several other softer tires for crawling that simply cannot keep up with the BFG red label. Something in the rubber mix, things are stupid grippy on anything, dry or wet.
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