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Show Declutching at Comers. While it is a wise precaution to throw out the clutch when rounding a sharp corneT, it also has a beneficial effect upon up-on the tires. Whenever the car tends to skid, due to its deflection from a straight course, a cross strain is brought to bear on the tire treads, which is directly pro portional to the weight of the vehicle and the radius of the curve and proportional propor-tional to the square of its velocity. If the power is applied in rounding a curve the tendency to rip off the tires is further aggravated by the backward drag due to traction. If the clutch ft? released, however, that factor is eliminated elimi-nated and the strain is thereby reduced |