I think when you take turn doing any speed the tires loosk like a elastic band on rims lol well not really but they bend a little to much.

Edit: the pictures didnt upload. but take a look for your self.

Totaly not treu ever looked at roud tyres your demo ,

caus you can only drive road cars so just check sometime you se why i say your wrong

Quote from Travis Rowe01 :

I think when you take turn doing any speed the tires loosk like a elastic band on rims lol well not really but they bend a little to much.

Edit: the pictures didnt upload. but take a look for your self.

You have never watched a film of a tyre under huge load then. It almost looks like it should be pulled off the rim.

This has come up time and time again. I dont have the link by youtube had the film of the 888 car at Bathurst last year. The film actually makes the LFS tyre flex look tame in places!

Yeah I know what video your talking about, REALLY great footage. It shows just how much strain race cars get put through. You may believe that tyre flex is a little much, but usually the setup has unrealistic tyre pressure, especially on road cars.
~Bryan~

Agree with you two above, you need to remember that most of the times we push the cars in LFS to an aboslute maximum, and using setups that gives hell of a lot pressure on the tyres, so I don`t think it`s unrealistic

It would looked the same in real life if the cars used that extreme setups like we do, and push the car on the edge in the corners.

Quote from Woz :

You have never watched a film of a tyre under huge load then. It almost looks like it should be pulled off the rim.

This has come up time and time again. I dont have the link by youtube had the film of the 888 car at Bathurst last year. The film actually makes the LFS tyre flex look tame in places!

Although all that were racing slicks, which don't have that stiff sidewalls like a road tyre, which is what we race in 50% of the cars... It's been brought up before, and I have to partly agree with the OP, the road tyres shouldn't be that flexible, but I feel the racing tyres are bang on for the (ridiculously low) pressures most people run... I just wish for tyre flex with load, so the tyres compress under braking...

They compress under vertical load as well, not sure why it doesn't seem like very much though. Drop the car in the garage and you can see them compress. Maybe it's just not enough, I don't know, but it is there.

Not like that vid you're talking about, that was incredible.

vertical deformation was much higher in patch Q IIRC (or was it even before that ?)

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-5514187761775229227
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=1532518259570058946

Ahhh thanks Android!
~Bryan~

OK yea you guys are right and no a lot more than I do about these things but when guys are drifting it dosent seem like the flex as much and I no that drift cars are lighter than road cars a some race cars I guse the use a lot more tire presure?

Another thing that was discussed one of the previous times this came up was the fact that the road tires in LFS are quite high-profile, and likely have fairly soft sidewalls compared to some of the sporty low-profile tires you'd likely see on cars lapping on tracks in real life.

When drifting, the tires cross over the 'max grip' threshold and don't flex as much. For instance, if you were taking a corner really hard the outer tires would be forced longitudinal untill they pass their maximum grip level and they start to slide, the force against the sidewall isn't as great when the tire is bellow or above it's optimal grip level.

Excuse the lack of vocabulary, it's getting late and I just finished a load of homework, I hope you still get what I mean.
~Bryan~

The silly pressures used in LFS are the main issue, as is the sidewall stiffness, and the fact that the tire won't move on the rim (the "bead" is "glued" to the rim, and the tire sort of visually stretches). In drifting there is copious amounts of longitudinal slip, and the tires are generally VERY low profile, and have sidewalls like stone.