FWD or RWD better in turns?

[blacksol28]

I know I'm going to sound like a tool for saying this but you should check out the instructions for Gran Tourismo 3: A spec. It explains the traction circle, or something like that. Basicaly the tire can only devote %100 of its traction at a time. So if you accelerate more than %100 of the tires traction you break traction, same with braking and turning. Now in a FF car the tire is trying to accelerate and turn at the same time which in effect reduces the tires usable traction. So RWD makes better use of the tires traction.

[iVteC_PoWeR]

yea it explains that on Initial D too lol

[LVApex]

Originally Posted by blacksol28

I know I'm going to sound like a tool for saying this but you should check out the instructions for Gran Tourismo 3: A spec. It explains the traction circle, or something like that. Basicaly the tire can only devote %100 of its traction at a time. So if you accelerate more than %100 of the tires traction you break traction, same with braking and turning. Now in a FF car the tire is trying to accelerate and turn at the same time which in effect reduces the tires usable traction. So RWD makes better use of the tires traction.

your kinda looking at that one sided... see, all that shows is the difference in what happens between a FWD and rWD chassis as they start to accelerate in a turn. I.e. A FWD car will start to understeer, and a RWD car will start to oversteer.