If the vehicle is a circuit racer, then the track, be it a left or right hander circuit will have more corners in one direction. Having equal cross corners isn’t always ideal. Decent Corner weighting scales will usually display a pre calculated percentage for these rather than you having to work it out yourself from the individual weights. Getting these equal will give a well balanced car with reasonably equal handling characteristics on both left and right hand corners. This is the total of the front left plus the rear right, in comparison to that of the front right plus the rear left. Cross Corner WeightĬross corners or Cross weight is the most important setting. Regulations usually specify the minimum weights and location of any ballast too, but aim to get the static left/right balance as equal as possible before moving on. Single seaters are much better balanced than your usual race car, but the most common clubman cars are converted road cars, where the driver being at one side plays a huge effect to the weight distribution. This isn’t always possible, and we wish it were that easy.
One would think that the ideal would be to have a perfect left to right 50%-50% balance.
