Transmitting 237bhp and 236 lb ft through the front wheels inevitably resulted in torque steer under hard acceleration, added to which was the VXR's fondness for following ruts in the road — both under acceleration and braking — a problem which, we discovered, got much worse as the front
tyres wore down and the amount of «give» in the tread blocks reduced.
Not exact matches
You know an F1 driver is having a good time during a demonstration run when the
tyres are completely
worn down to the canvas by the end of it.
As the above picture shows, the
tyres were
worn right
down to the canvas, which really was remarkable.
One of the demonstrators who gave his name only as Clement, a driver, said there are over One Hundred buses in the workshop that have broken
down, some simply due to
worn out
tyres or minor mechanical problems, «the management has not bothered to make available resources to fix them, but have the «guts» to decide to buy a luxurious vehicle for the CEO.»
It was a greasy surface and the
tyres were almost
down to their
wear indicators, but the Lambo stayed on track.
To make matters worse for our Astra, the tread blocks on the original Contis are almost
down to the
wear indicators, and as we've already discovered, once the tread depth on the front
tyres drops below the 4 mm mark, tramlining becomes a real problem on less - than - perfect tarmac.
How realistically you doo this is
down to you, and you can customise many things including the number of laps, damage,
tyre wear, weather and even mechanical failure, but curiously enough, not fuel.