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Re: Wheelspin



>Question #1: Um.. you mean for maximum *performance*, maybe?  I'm kinda
>hard-pressed to see how 10% slip gives you more traction than no slip.

It all has to do with elastic deformation and the generation of the 
Maximum Coefficient of friction which occures at some degree of slip 
which for a street tire is about 10% For more detail (It's really nerdy) 
get the SAE paper written by Harvey and Ressler.

>Question #2: Semantics aside, WHY?  I don't doubt you, I just want to learn
>more about this.

See #1

Later!


Eric Fletcher
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St. Louis, MO

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