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Subject I don't buy that point.
     
Posted by Marshall on August 27, 2002 at 8:34 PM
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In Reply To you are overlooking several points posted by AntiHero[seatbelts rock] on August 27, 2002 at 08:15 PM
     
Message I've tested out my brakes plenty of times and the brakes lock up almost instantly when you jam on them hard enough.

I don't think that they are so hard to slow down that the stock brakes take an appreciable amount of time to slow them down. When you compare the force of stopping the entire car compared to stopping just the mass of the rotating wheel, the wheel isn't much by comparison.

Read my other post on this subject:

[ http://www.twinturbo.net/net/viewmsg.aspx?forum=general&msg_id=656437 ]

In that article from Porsche racing enthusiasts, they confirm what I am saying and quote a book by a physicist/racer.

If you want to argue physics with physicist Brian Beckman, who wrote a book titled "The Physics of Racing", then be my guest. But I have a feeling that a physicist who is into racing has a much better idea o the forces involved than TT.net members do.

     
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