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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.New Porsche's, Ferrari's, and the like aren't running 18"-21" wheels "just for fashion". The lower profile stiffer sidewalls aid in high speed stability and road feel, while the added space within the wheels often has the largest ceramic brakes they can possibly shove in there installed for good reason, slowing a street car down from around 200mph produces a LOT of heat. I can only imagine what advances a modern F1 car could make with their nearly limitless budgets given more space for larger brakes and better airflow.Pandering to fashion...
New Porsche's, Ferrari's, and the like aren't running 18"-21" wheels "just for fashion". The lower profile stiffer sidewalls aid in high speed stability and stiff, bad road feel, not to mention they decrease fuel economy and hurt turn in, while the added space within the wheels often has the largest ceramic brakes they can possibly shove in there installed for good reason for a racer that has zero applicability for you because your're not a racer or Walter Mitty, slowing a street car down from around 200mph produces a LOT of heat--which again has zero application in the real world that you and I inhabit, except for the feverish dreams of sweaty teenage boys. I can only imagine what advances a modern F1 car could make with their nearly limitless budgets given more space for larger brakes and better airflow.--because I am a sweaty teenage boy inside/QUOTE]
^^Fixed that for you.
Just the aero on an f1 car gives you a g of braking lifting off the gas. I am not fit enough to tolerate the g's an f1 car can produce on braking, 99% of the big wheel thing is fashion. Yes there is a grain of fact in everything you say. Pandering to fashion.