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Location: Boulder, Colorado
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On a race track and corners without high curbing, you can hang that raised inside front out over the grass or dropoff at the apex and never feel it unless you screw up and get in so close the rears drop off.
I suppose that with your diagonals about equal your right/left weight balance is close to 50/50?
If it isn't, you might experiment with using a different corner balance approach, which one can call the percentages method for lack of some better name. The ideal left front weight, given the distribution of mass in the car, would be the percentage of left side weight times the percentage of right side weight times the total weight. In a car with 50/50 side to side weight distribution (or 50% F/R) the corner weights will be the same as the equal diagonals approach. If you aren't at 50/50 side to side, you might move some mass around (if there is anything left to remove from the heavy side, or to move to the light side).
But I'm with those who wonder why you'd be too concerned about this with a championship car.
Is this basically a high speed road raly car? Don't you guys favor a car which is loose - which tends to oversteer - so you can use that to your advantage when you need to tighten a turn?
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