4 Wheel Drive Too Much Traction

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4 Wheel Drive Too Much Traction

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15-02-2013, 09:14

Lil' Lavery Lil' Lavery is offline

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Re: 4 Wheel Drive Too Much Traction

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Originally Posted by Taylor

Can you please explain your thought on this? It's common practice for teams to have robots longer than they are wide - 48 had a (in)famously long robot last year, and they were multiple regional winners. I agree that wider bases have less scrub, but never longer than wide?

Wheel base, not robot/frame. I believe 48 had a dropped center, so their wheel base was still wider than it was long.

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