modfan
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Brandon, yes the small tired low horsepower cars do tear up the track the worse. If you take two 3000# cars one with 10" wide tires and one with 6" wide tires. The one with the 6" wide tires has a contact patch of about 24 square inches. the one with the 10" wide tires has a contact patch of about 40 square inches. This works out to about 1/2 the weight per square inch. There are other variables including tire pressure and sidewall composition. But yes a narrow tire will tear up the track worse then a wide tire. By the way HP generally doesn't figure into this equation because when your running the track in all the cars can spin there wheels.