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Originally Posted by swamp2
Yup, that was my point #5.
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I wasn't referring to banked turns. I was referring to differences in lean angle of the cars around whatever turn.
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Originally Posted by swamp2
Well we are perhaps closer than total disagreement but I can't see how you can get to not even a slight disagreement. Foot seems to believe they numbers are free to adjust each independently (perhaps even under ideal conditions and based on how many drive wheels in the car).
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You're both referring to the same thing, which is that a given vehicle may get through a given turn more quickly than another vehicle, while generating no more peak G, and possibly less.
You're quoting physics 101 scripture, but on the actual planet, attacking a curve in an ideal manner varies from car to car - and of course from driver to driver. The ideal line will vary, and a driver may in fact induce an "artificial" peak G via wheel or throttle action in order to get a given car to behave in a way the driver prefers, for alignment into the next turn, or whatever.
As far as I know, nobody who does skidpad tests measures average G with an accelerometer, even though that wouldn't be difficult. They do average G by measuring how long it takes to get around a circle of a given radius, and, on a racecourse, they typically only measure peak G.
As an aside, I'm guessing that measuring average G around a given turn would probably generate at least as many questions as it would answer (because of the differences involved in attacking a given curve with a given driver), so as far as I know, it's seldom done.
In any event, you two are agreeing on the primary point, mentioned in my first paragraph.
Bruce