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Re: Rotax and Formula A
Posted by 'dave56' on 02 Jun 2010 @ 20:14

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Itpro is right...

You can never have too much grip! If you had ultimate grip then you would never need to break into corners (so to speak) even the tightest hairpin in the world with too much grip would be faster than with less grip.

Driving styles and strengths do come into this equasion. when you have too much grip where the kart hurts you by 'wanging' on in corners does require a different driving style and more strength and a different driving style.

Simple example... if you bogged a engine down out of a corner which would slip and pull better???

1 a engine with a clutch

2 a non clutched engine

I think you all would agree with this answer!!!

Its not a fair comparison compairing a FA to a MAX due to the clutch (look at previous posts in the past about 'slip'!

Revs never equal straight line speed, unless the power band is used correctly and I would say a max does have more mid range than a FA due to the amount of time a lower reving engine stays in its 'best powerband' for longer instead of reving though it.

This is a complicated subject though and intreasting you also have to take into account tyre developement over the years... and tyre profiles which work better for some classed than others. Bridgestones are really good to make a kart go into a corner and release due to tyre contact patches being smaller on the rear, compaired to the old FA tyres where the front tyre was alot wider on the front, but the rears used to bog off the bends as the contact point was bigger as well!!!

I think the only true answer to this in on a simulated dyno compairing the 2 types of engine

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