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      11-16-2023, 04:15 PM   #40
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There's a reason why sport cars use lighter wheels, and I can assure you it's not a gimmick. Unsprung mass matters and is not an urban legend, it's physics. Newton's laws of motion are a theoretical framework of this.

If the performance was the same, they wouldn't add cost by putting on lighter wheels on sports cars. Lighter wheels handle better; they provide more direct steering, are more planted, etc. As an example of this check out the Corvette C8 Z06 lap times with and without carbon wheels and see which one is faster. Mind you, the vette that didn't have CF wheels still had light forged wheels.
This might be what I’m looking for, where is this comparo?
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