[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Mirek]

cornering speed depends on how much all of the above "blah blah blah look at me how shiny i am" you posted can the tyre take before is starts sliding...

Actually not. Again same example. Put Michelin Pilot Sport WRC SS2 on Audi Quattro and try to reach same speed in the corner as with Fiesta WRC. You will end on a speed 20 km/h lower or something like that. Or put those same tyres on a stock VW Multivan and try again

Lateral acceleration which the tyre can ideally take is of course same in all cases but the thing is that the real conditions are never same as those ideal laboratory ones and it's the car what makes them different. Therefore even if You have the very same corner and the very same tyres never two different cars can reach absolutely same speed (even if they have same weight).

This is correct, but only for the apex speed that the car can carry in a corner. For the part of a turn after the apex, when the driver applies throttle to accelerate away, you can have two situations. Either traction limited or power limited. For sure for certain corners more power will result to higher corner exit speed (i.e. faster overall corner speed), but in other corners it will have no influence.

Cornering speed is not a corner exit speed. Imagine that as a speed on a fixed diameter circle.