Originally Posted by
Laguna Bozo
Most race tracks have a high-speed sweeper at the end of the straight. Loading the inside of your car, a la offset Sprint Cars, improves control and keeps your speed up. Plus there will be many more turns in that same direction. Slower infield turns don't shift the weight so hard, so aren't effected as much by imbalance. No charts or graphs, but experience says a 50/50 side-to-side balance is often not the fast way to go...
Disagree. I want my car to pull straight on the power and under braking, which requires a 50/50 split. I want it to handle the same on LH and RH corners, which requires a 50/50 split.
A car takes about 0.5s to get round a sweeper, and 13s to get round the rest of the lap, so I'm going to optimise it for the 13s chunk, not the 0.5s chunk.