Originally Posted by
Krio
You keep saying that braking (corner entry) transfers weight to the front and you gain steering, and then you say adding weight to the front looses corner entry. Weight on the front tires, no matter added or transferred, will result in more traction. It is about % of weight front to rear and that is why sliding the pack forward gains steering (on and off power) because the front tires how have a greater % of the cars weight.
This is not entirely true....
You need to think as added weight and transfered weight as two entirely different things. While in the end they are 'weight on the front tires' they have the ability to work against each other.
The heavier the nose becomes with added weight, the more lazy it will feel entering the corner, because of this the car is less responsive. Your initial steering is reduced at this point.
The cause of this is that the weight bias of the car has been shifted more toward the nose of the car when weight is added. This gives less weight bias to the rear of the car. With less bias in the rear of the car, the car has less weight to transfer to the nose. Due to the car having less weight to transfer, it has less of an effect on collapsing your suspension to get the car to carve into the corner.
Once you get past the initial part of the steering and the weight has been transfered onto the nose this is where the weight starts to give more steering because then it is harder for the car to lift the nose. The car now has to work harder to lift the extra weight. Since it has extra weight to lift it cannot transfer the weight as easily to the rear, in turn giving you more steering exiting the corner from the weight staying on the nose longer. This can also make the car feel more lazy exiting the corner.