| at different times. If you are sitting still or traveling in a straight line, wider tires don't necessarily mean you have a larger contact patch. However, during corners, narrower tires cannot match the amount of grip (or the contact patch) wider tires can give you. If you do combination driving, which we all should do on the street, we compromise between either. That's why racecars are designed to go fast in a straight line use skinny tires up front (although they have wider tires out back) to reduce drag and Indy cars use wide tires all the way around for the corners.
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