[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by thefro526

This wasn't entirely true. There were a few teams that I drove against that year (25 and 2753 come to mind) that had 12 wheels in their drive trains versus our 6 and they had noticeably more pushing power than we did, and could also out accelerate us. I'm not sure what caused this, I always theorized that the carpet under the Regolith may have had some effect on the amount of Friction, but never cared much to test it once the season was over.

I'll pluralize that anecdote. 57 went with 4 slicks at our first Lunacy regional and driving performance was lackluster. I argued loudly that just doubling up the wheels was completely pointless, physics! etc. But we had a little weight and a lotta desperation, so we gave it a shot. I subsequently had to eat my words when 8 wheels DID perform better than 4. I still have no adequate explanation for it.