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Originally Posted by j-c-c
On a top fuel dragster, a similar video in Slow mo indicates individual cylinder pulses as each cylinder fires in the area of a 1000hp? each, very impressive.
My assumption is the wrinkle wall helps cushion those impulses to help maintain traction.
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The wrinkle wall may do that, but where it really helps is it squats, then grows. So basically the whole tire is trying to go up which means it's actually pushing down on the track.
This is why places like Engineering Explained are wrong when they talk about quickest possible 0-60 numbers based on how fast the car can decelerate. They try to qualify it with "on street tires" but there are street legal tires that also do this but to a lesser degree. Why the new Demon 170 can beat his "quickest possible" even if you did take rollout off. 1.83 seconds without, 1.66 with. That's on street legal factory equipped tires. Who needs AWD when the front tires aren't even on the ground?