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Originally Posted by KoenG
I believe it's a balancing excercise. You have to choose between 'wants' that are conflicting: and that is better behaviour for going into the turn: initiate it without too much understeer, and the second is maximum acceleration in the exit of the turn. I presume also that a pro driver would prefer a stiffer wheel on the front because he can better play/control the initiation phase, which I clearly couldn't  The guys running nordschleife best times will be pro's and prefer stiffer and lower side walls. |
Interesting points. Are you saying that the lower tire wall is ultimately faster in the hands of professional drivers and more tire wall is to help amateurs going faster? I so, are you talking AWD specifically or both RWD and AWD?
Cause I’m skeptical that BMW left any obvious advantage on the table when they designed the M4 GTS with staggered diameter. Of marketing reasons they needed the pros to post the quickest time as with the M5CS.