Jason Moyle Racing

Hi - there are lots of views about this and many things affect it.

But to begin 1kg/mm = 56lb/in which are units something a lot more people are familiar with.

With a golf, the key to handling is to prevent loss of front negative camber in roll, and front nearside compression. This can be done in many ways - suspension geometry, anti-roll bars, reducing the weight of the car, spring rate, damper characteristics (primarily low speed bump).

Putting rock hard springs on is a simple way to achieve this but traction will suffer as the tyre wont be able to ride the bumps. If you drive on super smooth tracks then that's less of an issue.

If you use slicks, you will have more grip which will lead to more roll and correspondingly you will need more tactics to counteract that roll.

I cannot remember the exact figures but I will dig them out tonight for my sprint Ibiza - this ran on big sticky slicks and didn't roll much at all towards the end of development, but equally was not super stiff, rode the bumps well, and was a proper weapon in the rain.

Cheers

Rob