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Originally Posted by schoy
The simple answer lies with wear and materials strength, not friction. Race cars have softer tires and thus wear faster (given all the lateral Gs). Unless you want to be changing tires every lap, you use wider tires.
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It's because real friction forces, unlike the ones they teach you about in physics class, do depend on contact area.
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