Traction has always been the limiting factor in automotive performance. There is a reason why a Civic Type R set a faster time than exotic cars of early 2010s,

Traction has always been the limiting factor in automotive performance. There is a reason why a Civic Type R set a faster time than exotic cars of early 2010s, and thats because modern street tire compounds are as grippy as slick racing tires from those years. And now, race tires have a static friction coefficient greater than 1, because when warmed up they actually glue themselves to the road.