4" vs. 6" vs. 8" wheels. Advantages?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by big1boom

Wider tread provides absolutely no benefit. When the surfaces are hard, uniform, and flat (Lunacy)

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.