contact patches

[BL Dozier]

hello. any benifits in having maybe for different contact patches
on your car, i was thinking since each wheel bears its own load would
having four different tires handle better on the car softer componds up
front harder in rear or vice versa

thnaks

[Kevlar]

Softer tires up front means more grip, harder tires out back means less grip. That means more oversteer. People run different tires front/rear all the time... not so much on street cars though.

One major benefit of running all four of the same tires is that they are engineered to work together. The front tires do what they are supposed to do and the rears the same. I.E. The fronts move the water out of the water so the wider rear tires don't have to.