contact patch
The contact patch is the part of the tire that touches the road. Bigger patches help you grip corners better.
The contact patch is the area of a tire that actually touches the road surface; larger patches generally improve grip during cornering.
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"to be what's happening to contact patch. And I like these cars because it's like,"
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"I was following a 993 C4S big contact patch so throwing a lot of rocks [391.7s] on a constant basis."
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"If the tire spins or shakes and if they shake, they'll spin too, because the [2694.1s] contact patch is gone at that point."
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