Nope. Helps the turn in the corner. Its about a balance of camber and tire wear.
Well with NASCAR it’s all about left turns since it’s an oval. This provides more grip as the tire flattens out with high g-forces. The other side will have negative camber.
I’ve seen plenty american muscle drag cars with possitive camber. Don’t know why but they’re everywhere when I go to the strip.
Interesting, I wonder if they flatten out when the front end is lifted under acceleration. Seems like it would only add more positive though.
Most likely not. Unless racing on oval positive camber is useless
Some offroad vehicles may use positive camber, so when it’s flat it’s positive, but when one of the wheels goes over an obstacle the camber goes negaive and the car can grip better.
Baja/prerunner trucks have some positive camber on the front so that it’s zero camber on full compression IIRC
There’s actually a mathatical calculation which is used to balance the camber between the left and the right. It’s FR+FL+RR+RL/RL+FR or something like that…..I used to play NASCAR The Game 2013….learnt it from there.
I have heard from NASCAR drivers that it’s easier for them to turn than to go straight in these cars because of the positive and negative camber on each side of the car
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Nope. Helps the turn in the corner. Its about a balance of camber and tire wear.
Well with NASCAR it’s all about left turns since it’s an oval. This provides more grip as the tire flattens out with high g-forces. The other side will have negative camber.
I’ve seen plenty american muscle drag cars with possitive camber. Don’t know why but they’re everywhere when I go to the strip.
Interesting, I wonder if they flatten out when the front end is lifted under acceleration. Seems like it would only add more positive though.
Most likely not. Unless racing on oval positive camber is useless
Some offroad vehicles may use positive camber, so when it’s flat it’s positive, but when one of the wheels goes over an obstacle the camber goes negaive and the car can grip better.
From the indycar.com website:
Well Indy cars race on ovals too
These guys run positive camber on the left front. They also run a bigger diameter tire on the right-rear than on the left-rear.
http://www.sprintcarinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/293129215_seRyM-O.jpg
Oh, and these sprintcars also double as airplanes
is that bad that it remind of McQueen?
Thought the same thing :)
Baja/prerunner trucks have some positive camber on the front so that it’s zero camber on full compression IIRC
There’s actually a mathatical calculation which is used to balance the camber between the left and the right. It’s FR+FL+RR+RL/RL+FR or something like that…..I used to play NASCAR The Game 2013….learnt it from there.
I have heard from NASCAR drivers that it’s easier for them to turn than to go straight in these cars because of the positive and negative camber on each side of the car