What is the recommended approach to camber to balance wear and grip across the tire?

• A. Maximize negative camber to improve cornering grip.
• B. Use no camber adjustments.
• C. Set camber to balance wear and grip across the tire.
• D. Apply positive camber on all setups.

Answer: (C)

Camber is the tilt of the wheel from vertical, and it changes how the tire contact patch behaves as the tire loads up during cornering. The aim is to have the tire share wear evenly across the tread while still delivering good grip when the tire is loaded in a turn. Setting camber to balance wear and grip across the tire means dialing in enough negative camber so the tire maintains a solid contact patch under cornering load, without creating excessive inner-edge wear when the car is straight or in light loads. If you push too far into negative camber, you’ll see the inner edge wear quickly on straight sections; with no camber adjustment, you miss optimizing how the tire patches contact the road; with positive camber, grip in corners drops and outer-edge wear becomes an issue. So the best approach is to tune camber to balance wear across the tire while preserving grip where the tire carries the load.