Help with wheel size

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Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350

The reasons most teams tend to use smaller wheels are:

• smaller wheels are easier to find (at least in recent years)
• Larger wheels are heavier wheels
• Larger wheels also require a larger, heavier gear reduction to get them to the appropriate speed/torque

True, but this year there also happens to be a very specific and beneficial reason to use a larger diameter wheel.