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I'm pretty sure this is already known for FH6, that having wider rear and front tires will improve your car's handling. But I didn't really know to what extent though.

Just for context, I tried building a Ferrari F40 Competizione for S2 class; which would mean downgrading the tires to either Rally or Drift compound. The most obvious thing would be to throw on Rally tires, right? (Knowing how OP they tend to be). But this build required sacrificing tire width for compound.

Drift tires, on the other hand, allowed me to go for max rear tire width and one front tire width upgrade. So, can Drift tires with tire width upgrades really beat the "grippier" Rally tire compound?

Well, I ran a couple of laps around Legend Island Circuit to find out. Both builds have the same stock engine and weight reduction upgrade to keep the test as simple without adding any biases.

The results: I managed to set a lap of 1:12.001 with Drift tires. Then for the Rally tires, I managed a lap of around 1:12.6.

I thought it was my driving lines that were off from running the course multiple times. But I felt like the Rally tires with no tire width upgrades are losing time on the medium and slow speed corners. The front tire width upgrade seemed to make steering response sharper (idk how to really put it). So, even if the Rally tires are able to handle more Lateral G's than Drift tires, the width of the front and rears seem to do a lot of the heavy lifting in the corners.

TL;DR: front and rear tire width definitely helps a lot with handling, and not just the tire compound alone.

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