2) It removes a thin layer of aged hard rubber,
and reveals fresh soft sticky rubber.
If it removes a layer of rubber wouldn't that also remove the TrackBite?Â
They spray the track with TrackBite, not
the tire. You do a burnout principally to remove
this aged layer of rubber,
Years ago when I was paying attention to this stuff, road racers on slicks
could pull 1.2g and higher without any special 'TrackBite'-like coatings on
the track. I remember 2g in some situations, but I don't remember if
banking was involved.
The theory behind coefficient of friction is based on
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> I though I heard of sub 3 second time reported, not theorized.
>
I recently read of a car that does 0 - 60 in 2.2 seconds. Tesla is FAR from
optimum.
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> I have never gotten an explanation I could understand of how C_friction can
> exceed 1 as I have heard regarding dragsters.
>
I'm not
Ordinary pavement in contact with rubber tires give a coefficient of
friction of about 1. There is no getting around this. It limits the
acceleration to about 1 g, which translates to a 0 to 60 mph time of
about 2.7 to 2.8 seconds. To quote the BMW owners manual on the subject
of traction
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> The "layer of fresh rubber" helps, but that alone won't get you anywhere
> near the traction that TrackBite will.
Nor will TrackBite alone get you there without heating the tires and doing
the burnout. Both are required with a car producing 1000 horsepower or
more.
> A properly prepped
The reason that Tesla is limited to a 0 to 60 mph of 3.2 seconds is that
you can only get about 1 g of acceleration on the street. The
coefficient of friction (on regular pavement) is a little less than one.
I'm guessing that the 2 second 0 to 60 mph time is calculated using a
simplistic
