Slo Poke wrote: ↑19 Nov 2019, 09:49
.... Ask any articulated truck driver which drive wheel spins first on any type of road surface and all will state the left or near side wheel. That’s because of different length drive shafts, the left one is a little shorter. ....
imo not so
fundamentally which wheel spins when driving straight .....
(best shown in a traditional ie Hotchkiss drive vehicle) is due to the direction of rotation of the prop shaft
ie the crown wheel is trying to dive or climb - this causing contact load increase on one wheel and decrease on the other
torque tubes (diluting this effect) were common (before chassis-mounted CWPs eg IRS or De Dion did the same)
or it was cancelled in some race cars eg 20s M-Bs and 30s Alfa Romeos by using 2 'handed' propshafts/CWPs
regarding cornering
remember there's lots of toe effects eg rear wheel (not just Ackerman)