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Don't know about the math end of it, but actual results always trump theories. I suspect in a perfect world where both surfaces are perfectly flat and true and in constant perfect contact......pavement and rubber tires don't fit that description.
The tires on a top fueler run low pressures and by design distort under initial acceleration, causing the contact patch to grow into a sort of heart-shaped affair for the launch; as speed increases (rapidly), centrifical force caused the tires to grow in diameter which changes the final drive ratio.
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