Originally posted by warmonger:
I don't know about the chassis flex thing, but I've read that some weight transfer is desirable.
The FWD car is soooo weight biased to the front that transfer of weight to the rear will not necessarily hurt it and it can supposedly help with the launches.
Figure a rear wheel drive car is more like 50-55% front but on takeoff probably 60% or a little more in the rear and will increase traction. IIRC it has to do with the type of setup on the FWD car, i.e. macpherson struts and the like.




that makes sense, but my main reason for thinking that you don't want weight transfer is that it takes weight off the front wheels which would seem to give less traction (I suppose the setup would always change things a little, but not the concept).... I might be missing part of the equation though. It would be the opposite in a rwd car where you'd want to have weight transfer to get the rear wheels smashed to the ground.

Flexing just seems to time consuming when .01's of a second matter.