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(above & below) If we could look down on the tire contact patch during cornering, wewould want to see an even pattern across the width of the tire, muchlike the sketch on the left. If the right rear tire had too muchnegative camber set into it, at mid-turn, the contact patch might welllook like the pattern on the right and the tire would have lesstraction.
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(above & below) If we could look down on the tire contact patch during cornering, wewould want to see an even pattern across the width of the tire, muchlike the sketch on the left. If the right rear tire had too muchnegative camber set into it, at mid-turn, the contact patch might welllook like the pattern on the right and the tire would have lesstraction.  View Related Article

 

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