I like to know and understand what's really going on. Here is a pretty good series of tire articles.
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How tyre rubber works
The viscoelastic nature of tyre rubber is why managing the performance of tyres is so difficult. Let's discover the science of rubber.
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Tyre grip
Once we have an understanding of how tyre rubber behaves, we then need to understand how this helps to generate tyre grip.
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Tyre dynamics
Once we understand how tyre rubber works and how tyre grip is generated, the next question is how does this affect tyre dynamics?
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