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Old 10-05-2015, 04:41 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
Lots of negative camber does help in cornering because the car puts all the weight on the outside and actually ends up with even camber in a hard corner. It make the outside tires way off but there isn't much weight on those tires. A circle car that only turns one way can be set up with negative on one side and positive on the other but a car that has to turn right and left will just run negative camber all around.
Camber only helps for the limited amount that a car leans into a turn. Any car optimized for the track has only a few degrees of negative camber; that is as much as one wants it to lean. Ideally one wants the full contact patch on the road under all conditions.
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