I like to know and understand what's really going on. Here is a pretty good series of tire articles.
How tyre rubber works
The viscoelastic nature of tyre rubber is why managing the performance of tyres is so difficult. Let's discover the science of rubber.
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Tyre grip
Once we have an understanding of how tyre rubber behaves, we then need to understand how this helps to generate tyre grip.
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Tyre dynamics
Once we understand how tyre rubber works and how tyre grip is generated, the next question is how does this affect tyre dynamics?
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