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Originally Posted by RedDevil
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You're assuming that tires follow the classical friction model. They don't--if they did, no cars would be able to accelerate at more than 1G. Tires actually physically interlock with the road; the bits of the tread key into irregularities in the surface of the road. Those interactions are not improved by the amount of force pushing down on the tire, so weight doesn't help.
The "road-hugging weight" ads from the 70s were pure BS. Lighter cars corner harder, brake shorter, and accelerate harder than heavier ones--given the same tires, brakes, engines, etc.
-soD