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Post Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:16 pm

Re: Grip too high, cars too light?

It says V6 on the back of the Audis, and VR6 on the other cars that uses that engine. :geek:
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Post Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:46 pm

Re: Grip too high, cars too light?

VW marketed it as both v6 and vr6, it only got the VR in sport applications.
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Post Sun May 03, 2015 4:32 am

Re: Grip too high, cars too light?

This can all be fixed with age appropriate tires. The racing slicks of today are nothing like the slicks of the 60's and definitely not the slicks of the 40's. Take that idea and pass it along to all of the tires, with max sizes / profiles for the appropriate years of cars. When did production cars first come with "sport" tires? The 1963 corvette with the red walls?

EDIT - Goodyear Redlines and they were introduced in 1967.
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Post Sun May 03, 2015 2:28 pm

Re: Grip too high, cars too light?

I thought tyre performance was already graded to age, as evidenced by the significantly differing Min profiles. A Max quality semi slick of 1940 still needs a Min profile of like 50 whereas in 2020 it's more like 10.
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