"Flat-spotting" a tyre is a term that's used when we damage a tyre by having a wheel locked on track. This is where one or more wheels stops turning while the car is still moving. This is one of the more extreme outcomes of a locked wheel, in this case from a lockup at close to 300 km/h where every single layer of the tyre has been worn through 😲
Normally flat spots are nowhere near this destructive, although any significant flat spot on a tyre can make a big difference to performance. The best-case scenario is a lack of grip from one corner of the car, the worst-case is having so much vibration that the driver can't even see clearly out the windscreen!
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This is what a 300kph (186mph) lockup looks like.
"Flat-spotting" a tyre is a term that's used when we damage a tyre by having a wheel locked on track. This is where one or more wheels stops turning while the car is still moving. This is one of the more extreme outcomes of a locked wheel, in this case from a lockup at close to 300 km/h where every single layer of the tyre has been worn through 😲
Normally flat spots are nowhere near this destructive, although any significant flat spot on a tyre can make a big difference to performance. The best-case scenario is a lack of grip from one corner of the car, the worst-case is having so much vibration that the driver can't even see clearly out the windscreen!
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