Talk:MotorFiesta 1/@comment-31245059-20170429055639/@comment-28548945-20170610025134

"imperfect real world situations"

the reason wider tires work better is exactly because roads are imperfect - wider tires means better probability of keeping contact with the road.

which is the only thing tires need to have friction with the road - that tiny bit of contact.

thin tires, with everything else equal with a wider tire, will have as much friction as the wider tire - only difference is that it will easily lose contact with the road because of road imperfections.

no contact = no friction.