# Coefficient of Friction, car tires and road

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-car-tires-and-road/157208>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-car-tires-and-road/157208 "2003-02-24T18:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-car-tires-and-road/157208/21 "2003-02-28T05:02:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fuel \*  
> \*\*Exactly my point.
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> The old friction physics rules of thumb fall apart laughingly in the face of modern racing, isn’t this obvious or am I being too frivilous? Maybe you won’t see some vettes pulling 2 G’s off the line without stick’em, but theoretically they could pull say1.2 G’s, right?
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> By the way, the drag cars you speak of pull much more than a G because of adhesive stickem’ on the tires and road. They pull like 2.5-3 G’s without any help from downforce off the line, if I’m not mistaken. But this is another sub-topic, I am talking about purely rubber meets the road friction. \*\*

**something clever** , here was my distinction between soft and sticky that you didn’t see and still haven’t seen. I am just asking you to read more thoroughly so we don’t have to waste time and posts on this trivial stuff and me telling people i already said this and that.

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