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Originally Posted by Cobra #3170
About 20 years ago I participated in a test at Tire Rack in Indiana. It was in preparation for an event that a friend was running for max G load. We used a timer and ran on a 200 foot circle. My friend had a winged A mod car. He pulled over 2 G just nosing out my Son's Gokart. We found that both the kart and the A mod car had to be set up with a large percentage of oversteer to do well. They had so much oversteer they would not negotiate a normal course very well at all. An ill handling car might do well on the circle but not so well in real world conditions.
Wasn't the new ZR1 supposed to pull 1.19 G, I think I read that somewhere.
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I was going to say something very similar...
Many years ago I worked on a small project with BFG and a Japanese Tuner company to prove that the street tire could pull 1g on the skidpad (for an advertisement). Neither the car nor the tire could do it out of the box but after I did about 50 laps continually tweaking the car setup along the way I was successful in hitting the target. However, I would have to periodically run the car around the adjacent racetrack to cool the car off and found the handling to be diabolical with the fast skidpad setup.
All that to say that high skidpad numbers do not necessarily equate to excellent handling or low lap times. I suppose they are more relevant when comparing stock vehicles as equipped from the factory.