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Originally Posted by eeyang92
According to the paper, you only want critical damping if you have some ground effect areo going on - makes sense, ground effect areo loses almost all effect if you're airborne, so more ground time = more consistent in the corners.
On a normal racecar, if you're too critically damped, then the car will tend to "hop" (imagine if your car had a solid bar in place of your shock, it would be extremely harsh and bounce off of bumps). Thus, your wheel will constantly be losing traction.
The same happens on the other end of the spectrum - if your compression is too low, then the wheel wont reset fast enough, so on bumps it will spend a lot of time in the air, thus losing traction.
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You can't be "too critically damped". You might mean overdamped though. Sounds roughly correct, but I think the reason for race cars running closer to critical is just for comfort. Too bad there isn't anything from DSC Sport available for BMWs.
https://www.dscsport.com/porsche/#981