Turtle n Peeps wrote:
The less air pressure you have in a tire, the less side wall support you have. Go around a corner and your tire "flexes" and will loose traction.
Tire pressure is not just all about the amount of tread on the ground, it supports the side walls as well.
The fastest laps I ever had a race car turn had super low pressures in the tires for a bigger contact patch which = more traction.
I was down to 7 psi in the LR 13 in the RR 15 in the RF and 12 in the LF.
This setup does feel sloppy until you get the tire up to temp but it also has the most traction I could find at the time on the tires we ran. This was about as low as I could go without rolling the tire under.
My point exactly. On a 1 ton pickup, you do not want to find out that tire just rolled over in an emergency maneuver. That much sidewall and it is just gonna blow out or lose traction.... All I am saying is there is a point on the tire which that will occur, and most "normal" drivers need to be aware of that before they start lowering pressure.
