There are two completely disparate car communities that use camber.
1. People who need negative camber to support high traction while drifting or in tight turns on a race track. (this is the minority unfortunately)
2. Stance kids who think it looks cool and put "most locally hated" stickers on their car and post about it constantly on TikTok. (this is the majority, unfortunately).
There are very few track-driven vehicles running more than -6 degrees of camber in the front, meanwhile it is commonplace to see stance cars with -10 degrees or more of camber. My race car runs -4.5 in the front, as an example, and my buddy's drift car is running -6.
Where does the 225 tire on a 10" wheel come in? I ask because drag racers will run a 275mm on a 14 or 15 inch wheel so there must be a reason the wannabe drift kids do it.
Short sidewalls ostensibly offer better cornering because there is less deflection in the sidewall. They also enable the use of larger brakes. Drag racers don't care about this since they don't turn unless something has gone wrong and they have lots of room to slow down. In drag racing the sidewall is used like a coil spring to capture torque before moving forward and then transmit it to the course.
Stance kids and all their variants do things because it looks good to them.
So in the earlier days of the drift scene, a lot of cars ran small, stretched tires to allow the car to slide easier. Smaller tyre has less grip, and the stretch stiffens the sidewall. When you've got a relatively low powered car this helped a lot.
These days a lot of drift drivers opt for more traditional tire sizing with the aim of getting more grip - as cars get faster and entry speeds into corners also get faster, you want more grip to sustain better angle.
The 'stance' look that you see with people stretching tyres is kind of a throwback to those early days, with a bit more of a focus on form over function. Personally it isn't my thing.
The drag racers use such tire/rim ratio to make a flexible connection to the ground and improve traction.
This https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000uzO7iSXj_JU/fit... is whathappen when your only way to transmit 10k Hp to the ground is 2 pieces of rubber.
1. People who need negative camber to support high traction while drifting or in tight turns on a race track. (this is the minority unfortunately)
2. Stance kids who think it looks cool and put "most locally hated" stickers on their car and post about it constantly on TikTok. (this is the majority, unfortunately).
There are very few track-driven vehicles running more than -6 degrees of camber in the front, meanwhile it is commonplace to see stance cars with -10 degrees or more of camber. My race car runs -4.5 in the front, as an example, and my buddy's drift car is running -6.