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Hello in the enclosed U.R.L there a Image of 2 race cars leaving a particular circuit they were travelling on defiantly cold slick tires and the suspension i.e. shock absorbers were set to stiff and tire pressures set for a slick tire race, basically the car was set up for a slick tire race it allso been claimed they drifted off the circuit so can someone please explain why that an impossiblity with the tires both cars were running,So can anybody please state why the cars went off the track? If you have any training, skills or expertise in this subject of the message please state Thank you very much Simon Daniels

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The track looks wet - or at least damp. Slick tyres have no grip at all when it's wet.
 
Welcome to gtplanet, but I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. If as you say the cars were on slicks and the setup was for a dry race, I will assume that what I'm seeing is a wet track and cars going off due to lack of grip and also, because they're close to each other, probably because one of them touched the other.

Why is this relevant?
 
"Slick" tires doesn't they are tires for a slick track. It means the tires themselves are smooth with no tread pattern on them. Slick tires are made for optimum racing conditions (dry tarmac). As you can see, the track is wet. When a race track gets wet, slick tires have almost no grip, and often causes cars to hydroplane off the track. When it rains, most of the time rain tires are put on the car. They have a tread design which displaces the water, preventing the car from hydroplaning.

So basically, slick tires on a wet track means bad grip.
 
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