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How to get a grip: Bridgestone's never ending quest

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Grip. A simple four-letter word, which covers a complex and crucial topic so vital to the area of a race tyre and consequently making a car go fast around a track. So, what is grip? Essentially the word grip in a tyre context is used to describe the friction between the tyre and the track. On the tyre side, how a tyre derives its grip, or its friction with the circuit, can be characterised in two main ways - adhesion and hysteresis loss by deformation...

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