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Originally Posted by VegasJim
Torque steer!
Never heard of that before. No in the drag racing scene but interested to hear that answer. Can you elaborate?

Positive caster typically improves straight line stability and self-straightening of a car (as well as during a turn increasing camber) - all at the cost of more steering effort needed (not enough that a servo would likely notice). I would think that little of caster would make the car to twitchy...
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