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The centripetal force of the tyres increases with weight. In a simple model this force is linear to the weight through the friction of the tyres. The force required to accelerate the car round the corner is also linear to mass. So, the mass is irrelevant. This is the case for a vehicle without downforce.
In a similar way the mass of a body does not effect how quickly it orbits around the sun. A pea or the Earth orbit’s the sun in one year if both 1 Astronomical Unit from the Sun.
If you throw in downforce then the perfect balance between the in the physics which means mass is irrelevant doesn’t hold. A car with downforce does have a dependency with mass. I find this dynamic quite interesting.
Also tyres friction coefficient isn’t necessarily linear to mass.
I’ve taken Stephen Hawkins’ advice and tried to wire without using an equation!
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