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Originally Posted by rusnak

I'm obsessed with suspension alignment at the moment. Can you guys tell me why so many of these cars look to be running near zero negative camber? Even F1 cars run more negative camber than these street cars. I get the stiff chassis and suspension, but body roll is body roll.

I think part of the deal is that different cars, suspensions, tire sizes, etc... do better with different amounts of camber. Also, if you aren't taking your car to the track or even pushing it hard on the street, you don't need that much camber, especially if the car has other attributes that give it huge grip.

I believe that as chassis and tires get wider and suspension gets stiffer, less negative camber is used to ensure that the tires have optimum traction in all circumstances. My understanding is that you can go overboard with negative camber and hurt other aspects of handling/grip (like braking and acceleration).