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WHY RIDE QUALITY ISN’T A COMFORT ISSUE
The term ‘ride quality’ is more generally associated with luxury saloon cars than with Formula 1 machinery but, in its own way, it’s equally important to any form of competition car. To understand why we first have to ask what we mean by ride quality.
Any vehicle travelling over bumps in a road will experience a vertical force as it traverses those bumps. Some of that force will deflect the tyre sidewall and some will be passed through the wheel to the suspension, where again some deflection will take place. Finally some force will
