graveshb
Go Kart Champion
I would say that at the point where the car starts to rotate, and when stability isn't interfering, the car with 225s square feels as if it is rotating about the front axle, but with the 235s on the back (given my 225s up front are almost to the wear indicator, and my 235s are at about half life) the car feels like it rotates about a point much closer to the steering wheel or the drivers seat, which I very much prefer. With stability control defeated, the car will understeer more, but it also oversteers more. I am a firm believer that you can adjust your driving to any given car and be faster for doing so. I know a lot of people on here bitch about our cars understeering a lot, but I don't really experience this much. I can induce understeer if I want, but most of the time I scrub speed into a turn, turn in either perfectly settled, or I come in a little too hot into the turn and rotate the car until I'm at the apex, then power out of the turn. Coming from an rx8, you really had to carry speed through the turns since it couldn't accelerate too well out of them, but with the GTI I think it has plenty of power to pull out of the turns once you straighten out, so I just carry as much speed into the turns as I can, then worry about accelerating once the car settles.
