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Course: Engineer tire and brake grip that lasts

Module: Define the shared grip budget

Estimated duration: 60 minutes

Principle: the car only negotiates with the track through four small patches of rubber.

When you are driving at an intermediate level, it is tempting to describe every corner as if the car itself is braking, turning, or accelerating. That language is convenient, but it hides the mechanism that matters. The chassis does not create grip. The brake pedal does not create grip. Steering angle does not create grip. The engine does not create grip. Every request you make has to pass through the small area of tire that is touching the pavement at that moment.

This is why the first useful grip question is not whether you can brake later, carry more entry speed, add steering sooner, or pick up throttle earlier. The first useful question is what each contact patch is already being asked to do. If the tire is already near its limit making braking force, it has less remaining capacity for cornering force. If it is already near its limit making lateral force, it has less remaining capacity for acceleration or braking. You can choose how to spend the tire's capacity, but you cannot pretend the same patch has separate accounts for separate controls.

The bonded sources describe this from several angles. Bentley frames the contact patch as the basis for driving at the limit and emphasizes that only four small footprints hold the car on the road. Lowum puts the operational point even more plainly: anything you want the car to do, whether accelerating, decelerating, or turning, is translated through the contact patch. Lopez then gives the budget model: if a tire has a certain amount of available force against the road, you may spend that available force on cornering, accelerating, braking, or some combination. Blazey's friction-circle explanation gives the same first model from the driver's seat: a tire has a maximum limit of adhesion, and that limit has to cover acceleration, braking, and cornering.

For this lesson, treat the contact patch as your first dashboard. Before you interpret pedal pressure, steering angle, engine power, brake bias, ABS behavior, or tire choice, ask what is happening at the patch. The patch is where the car either accepts or refuses your request.

What the shared budget means.

A tire's grip budget is not a vague motivational phrase. It is a force limit. Lopez gives a simple example: if a tire is pushing down on the road with 500 pounds of force, a typical race tire can generate about 500 pounds of maximum resistance against the surface in that simplified example. That potential force can be used for braking, cornering, accelerating, or a blend of those jobs. In straight-line braking, the tire can spend the available force almost entirely in the braking direction. In maximum cornering, it can spend the available force laterally. In a brake-and-turn phase, the same budget has to serve both.

The friction circle is the cleanest classroom picture of this. Lopez builds it with a simplified 1 G tire: 1 G for acceleration, 1 G for braking, and 1 G for cornering at the tire's maximum in each pure direction. Blazey presents the same basic idea by placing acceleration, braking, and lateral limits around the tire. The important driver lesson is not the perfect shape of the graph. The important lesson is that the graph has an edge. If you move farther in the braking direction, you have less space left to move sideways. If you move farther sideways, you have less space left for acceleration or braking.

This is also why the brake-turn phase is not wrong by definition. One sibling lesson will teach the brake release as steering is added, and another will separate braking slip from slip angle. Those lessons go deeper into the blend. Here you only need the governing rule: the blend has to fit inside the tire's available budget. The old beginner rule that all braking must be finished before turning is too crude for performance driving, but the opposite error is just as costly. You do not get to carry a full straight-line braking request and then add a full cornering request on top. The contact patch adds the two demands together.

Think of each corner as a sequence of budget allocations. On the approach, the dominant job may be slowing the car. At turn-in, the job begins to change. At mid-corner, the tire may be mostly lateral. At exit, the tire is asked to give up some lateral work as you ask for acceleration. The car feels like one flowing motion, but the contact patches are constantly trading one demand for another.

The three big sources of available traction.

Bentley names three primary factors that determine how much traction is available from the tires: the coefficient of friction between tire and track surface, the size of the tire surface contacting the track, and the vertical load on the tires. Lopez's tire chapter describes coefficient of friction as a practical comparison number: it relates the maximum force a tire can generate to the load pushing down on it. A tire with a higher coefficient of friction has more potential grip than one with a lower coefficient, all else equal.

As a driver, you do not need to turn this lesson into a tire-engineering lecture. You need to know which parts of the budget you can influence while driving and which parts are mostly handed to you. Surface and rubber compound set much of the coefficient of friction. Tire pressure, tire construction, and tire shape affect how the footprint is presented to the track. Vertical load comes from the vehicle's weight and aerodynamic downforce, and it changes dynamically as you use the controls.

The dangerous simplification is to think more load always means proportionally more useful grip. Bentley's Speed Secrets passage warns against that. Increasing vertical load does increase traction, but the relationship is not linear; the work required of the tire rises faster. That is the core of load sensitivity. A loaded tire can do more than it did unloaded, but the car as a whole does not gain a free equal amount of grip by throwing weight around. When you transfer load to one tire, you also take it away from another. Lowum makes the practical point that whenever you alter the loading balance on the tires, the net tractive capability is reduced.

That one sentence should change how you drive. Load transfer is useful because it helps the tires you need most for the next job. It is costly because it takes capacity away elsewhere and because the total system does not return one-for-one grip. Good driving is not about avoiding load transfer. Steady cruise has no place on a race track. Good driving is about applying load transfer deliberately enough that the tire you need is ready for the job without causing another patch to fall out of the budget.

The contact patch is small, but it is not silent.

A tire does not normally go from full grip to total breakaway with no warning. Bentley emphasizes that tires gradually relax their grip as they approach the traction limit. They need some slip to produce maximum traction, and in cornering that slip shows up as slip angle. You do not need the full slip-angle lesson yet, but you do need the listening habit. The tire is already talking before the obvious slide.

The first message may be a change in steering response. The car asks for more steering for the same path. The second message may be a change in how eagerly the car accepts throttle. The third may be the sensation that the car is no longer tightening its line even though your hands have asked for it. In the bonded material, Jeremy Dale's example captures one common front-tire cue: a small breath on the throttle can put enough weight on the front that the car turns in much better than it did without that lift. The mechanism is budget and load. The front patches needed a little more vertical load or a little less competing demand before they could accept the lateral request.

Do not overread that into a universal command to lift whenever the car will not turn. The lesson is more precise. When the car refuses a steering request, ask whether the front contact patches are underloaded, overloaded by braking demand, beyond their lateral budget, or being asked to change direction after you missed the mark. The same symptom can have different causes. The contact patch model gives you a disciplined diagnostic path.

The wider-tire trap.

The corpus contains a useful tension on tire size. Bentley presents a larger contact patch and tire width as a route to more traction, while Blazey cautions that for a given weight automobile the total contact patch area may remain constant as wider tires change patch shape rather than simply putting more total area on the road. Lopez adds another practical tire-pressure angle: with racing slicks, pressure is adjusted to keep an even footprint across the patch, and too much pressure crowns the center, under-using the edges.

For a driver, the safe conclusion is not to win a theoretical argument about tire construction. The safe conclusion is that tire selection and pressure can change the usable patch, but they do not repeal the budget. Wider tires, better compounds, and better pressure management can raise the ceiling. They do not let you ask one patch for unlimited braking and unlimited turning at the same instant. Start at the contact patch even when the car has good tires. Especially then, because higher grip just lets you arrive at the limit faster.

Technique: run a budget audit before you chase speed.

The practical technique is a simple corner audit. Pick one corner. Before you try to drive it faster, divide it into four phases: approach braking, turn-in blend, mid-corner rotation or hold, and exit release to throttle. Then ask which tire job dominates each phase. You do not need perfect math. You need a clear mental picture of where the tire is spending its capacity.

In the braking phase, your first question is whether you are using the available longitudinal budget in a straight enough line to keep the car stable and repeatable. Lopez notes that it is harder to creep up on the limit under braking than it is to flirt with the combined acceleration-and-cornering limit, and also that less lap time is generally gained by being right at the corner-entry limit than by being at the limit coming out of corners. That does not mean braking technique is unimportant. It means you should not spend the whole session worshiping a later brake marker while destroying the exit.

In the turn-in blend, your question is whether the steering request and the remaining brake request fit inside the tire budget. If the front tires accept the steering cleanly, the car rotates or points toward the intended line with no extra steering rescue. If the car refuses, pushes wide, or demands a second steering input, you likely asked too much too abruptly, carried too much entry speed for the available budget, or arrived at turn-in with the wrong load state.

In the mid-corner phase, your question is whether you are holding a stable lateral request or wasting grip through corrections. The friction circle model does not require the tire to be at the edge every moment. It teaches you to know what direction the demand is pointing. Mid-corner demand is mostly lateral. If you are also adding brake or throttle while the wheel is still significantly turned, the patch must share. That may be correct, but it must be intentional.

In the exit phase, your question is whether the car is able to trade lateral budget for acceleration budget as you unwind the wheel. Lowum's corner analysis gives the key exit test. If your velocity is high enough that you have to delay throttle at exit and track-out speed is slower, back off entry a bit to increase exit speed. If you improve exit speed, the gain carries down the following straight and may require you to adjust the next braking point because you arrive faster.

That is the budget audit in one sentence: identify which force the tire is spending now, decide which force it must spend next, and make the control transition early and clean enough that the contact patch is never double-booked beyond its limit.

Sub-skill 1: patch inventory.

Patch inventory is the habit of picturing four separate contact patches instead of one generic car. Under steady cruise, Lowum describes the load on each tire as roughly equal and the four tires as having maximum available traction at that moment, while also stressing that steady-state cruise has no place on a race track. Once you add gas, brake, or steering, load moves. Some patches get larger or more heavily loaded. Others get smaller or less loaded.

An intermediate driver should stop saying only that the car has understeer or oversteer. Start saying which end of the car ran out of the correct budget. Front tires that will not accept more steering are not a moral failure of the car. They are contact patches being asked for something they cannot currently provide. Rear tires that will not accept throttle while the wheel is still turned are also not mysterious. They are patches being asked for acceleration while still carrying lateral load.

You do not have to know exact pounds at each tire to benefit. You have to know that the four patches are not equal once you start driving hard. The patch inventory question is always: which tire is being loaded, which tire is being unloaded, and which force am I asking each loaded or unloaded tire to produce.

Sub-skill 2: budget direction.

Budget direction means naming the direction of the tire force before naming the control. Braking force points opposite the wheel and tire rotation. Cornering force points laterally. Acceleration force points in the drive direction. Lopez's braking section begins with the brake system creating hydraulic pressure, pads pressing rotors, and the brake system resisting wheel rotation, but the slowing force you feel still comes from the tire gripping the road. That distinction matters because pedal pressure is only a request. The contact patch decides whether that request becomes useful force or a slide.

When you press the brake pedal in a straight line, the demand points mostly up the braking axis of the friction circle. When you turn, it moves sideways. When you accelerate out, it moves toward the acceleration axis. If you combine them, the point moves diagonally. The tire does not care that one request came from your right foot and another came from your hands. It only sees the combined force demand.

This sub-skill keeps you from confusing control separation with force separation. The controls are separate in the cockpit. The tire budget is shared at the road.

Sub-skill 3: load timing.

Load timing is the art of having the right patch ready before you ask the big job from it. The bonded material does not require you to memorize suspension kinematics. It gives the operating principle: control inputs transfer load around the tires, and that changes contact patches. A small lift can help the front end turn because it changes front load. Braking can make front tires more capable for turn-in while reducing what the rear can do. Throttle can help the rear-driven tires accelerate while also changing the car's willingness to point.

The key is timing. If you ask for maximum steering before the front patches are ready, you get a dull front end or push. If you keep too much braking demand while asking for lateral force, you can exceed the combined budget. If you add throttle before unwinding enough steering, you ask the driven patches for acceleration before giving them back enough lateral budget.

The sibling lessons will teach the detailed brake-release and slip distinctions. This lesson gives the prior rule: time each control so the contact patch has capacity for the next force direction.

Sub-skill 4: mark fidelity.

Lowum's mark-based section is central because the contact patch budget can only be tuned from valid comparisons. If you miss the turn-in point, there is no valid exit-speed comparison. If you hit the marks and make adjustments, you start gaining speed. If you gain exit speed, that advantage carries down the straight.

This is more than a line lesson. It is a measurement rule. You cannot know whether a grip-budget change helped if you changed the line, braking point, turn-in point, and throttle timing all at once. You need repeatable marks so the tire-budget change is the thing being tested.

For this lesson, choose one corner and protect three marks: brake start or brake release reference, turn-in point, and track-out reference. Then adjust only the budget allocation. For example, release a little brake earlier before turn-in, or carry a little less entry speed to pick up throttle sooner. If the marks move around, the comparison is contaminated.

Sub-skill 5: exit-value judgment.

The contact patch budget is not spent equally around the lap. Lowum tells you to prioritize corners by the length of the following straightaway; in lap-time terms, the most important corner is the one before the longest straight. Lopez's braking section supports the same bias by warning that less overall lap time is gained by being exactly on the limit at corner entry than by being on the limit coming out.

That does not mean slow entries are always better. It means the patch budget should be spent where it returns speed for the longest time. If you spend too much budget on entry speed and force yourself to wait for throttle at exit, you may win the first half of the corner and lose the straight. If you give up a small amount of entry demand and earn earlier, cleaner exit acceleration, the contact patch budget was spent better.

Intermediate drivers often resist this because later braking and higher entry speed feel dramatic. The stopwatch usually rewards the quieter correction: a more honest entry that lets the car accept throttle earlier and carry speed away from the corner.

Calibration cues: what improvement feels like.

Good contact-patch budgeting feels less dramatic, not more. The car accepts the first steering input without needing a second one. The tire warning signs are felt earlier and smaller. The front tires do not need to be bullied into the corner. The exit does not require a pause while you wait for the car to finish using all of its lateral budget. You can unwind the steering and add throttle as a connected exchange rather than as two separate events fighting for the same patch.

The most useful lap-time cue is not always the speed at apex. The bonded corner-analysis material points to exit speed and the following straight. If a change lets you get to throttle earlier without increasing steering correction, and the speed advantage carries down the straight, the budget allocation improved. If a change raises entry speed but delays throttle and lowers track-out speed, the patch budget was overspent on entry.

The most useful consistency cue is mark repeatability. If you hit the same turn-in and track-out marks, you can trust the comparison. If you miss them, the lap may still feel exciting, but it did not teach you much. Contact-patch thinking is disciplined because it does not let you call a lap faster or slower without asking which demand changed.

The most useful feel cue is the tire's relaxation near the limit. Bentley's tire passage says the tire gives warning as it approaches adhesion limit. Learn the earlier warnings: light understeer before the big push, rear unease before the slide, steering delay before the visible line error, throttle hesitation before exit overrun. Those are not distractions. They are the contact patch reporting that the budget is nearly spent.

Common failure modes.

The first failure mode is double-spending the front tires. You arrive fast, keep a large braking request, and add a large steering request. The front patches cannot provide both in full, so the car turns lazily or runs wide. The driver often responds by adding more steering, which asks for even more lateral force from a tire that is already over budget. The correction is not to turn the wheel harder. The correction is to reduce one of the demands: release some brake, reduce entry speed, or change the timing so the front patch can accept the turn.

The second failure mode is worshiping the brake marker. Lopez warns that creeping up on the braking limit is harder and that entry-limit gains are usually less valuable than exit-limit gains. If you measure success only by braking later, you may make the most important part of the corner worse. The correction is to judge the corner by exit speed and by how early the car can accept throttle while still making track-out.

The third failure mode is treating steady coasting as neutral. Lowum is clear that steady-state cruise has no place on a race track. Coasting may feel safe, but it often means you are neither slowing the car efficiently nor preparing the contact patches for the next useful job. The correction is not to be abrupt. The correction is to make the car always have a purposeful request: controlled brake release, controlled lateral load, or controlled throttle pickup.

The fourth failure mode is ignoring the tire's warning signs. If you believe tires grip fully until they suddenly break away, you will wait for the big slide before you adjust. Bentley's tire discussion says the warning arrives before that. The correction is to pay attention to the earlier relaxation: the slight push, the widening line, the steering delay, the need to delay throttle.

The fifth failure mode is making invalid comparisons. If you miss the turn-in mark, the exit speed comparison is not useful. If you change brake point, turn-in, apex, and throttle all together, you cannot know which change helped. The correction is to repeat marks first, then adjust one part of the budget.

The sixth failure mode is expecting equipment to erase the lesson. Tire compound, contact patch shape, pressure, and vertical load all matter. Lopez's coefficient-of-friction section and Bentley's traction-factor list make that clear. But the budget still exists. A better tire gives a larger budget; it does not make the budget unshared.

How this connects to the rest of the module.

This lesson is the base layer. Separate braking slip from slip angle will give you finer vocabulary for how tires produce longitudinal and lateral force. Release the brake as you add steering will turn the shared-budget idea into a specific corner-entry technique. Trace force from pedal to road and trace brake force all the way to the road will show how the brake system creates a request that still has to be accepted by the contact patch. Respect controls without depending on them will cover the driver aids and systems that can help manage a tire near limit but cannot create unlimited grip.

Do not rush past this base layer. Before you study the more technical siblings, practice saying what the patch is doing. In the brake zone, it is spending mostly longitudinal budget. At turn-in, it is sharing. At mid-corner, it is mostly lateral. At exit, it is trading lateral budget back for acceleration. Every correction you make should be explainable in those terms. If it is not, you are probably tuning a symptom instead of managing the contact patch.

Worked example: the 500-lb tire budget at turn-in

Lopez's 500-lb example is useful because it keeps the lesson concrete. Imagine one tire has 500 pounds of usable resistance against the road in the simplified example. In straight-line braking, you can spend almost all of that on slowing the car. That is why the car can feel strong and secure when the steering wheel is straight and the brake pedal is doing one main job.

Now move the same car to turn-in. If you are still asking that tire for a large share of braking force and you add a large lateral request, the patch does not receive two separate 500-lb allowances. It receives one combined request. If the combined request is too large, the tire has to give something up. The usual intermediate-driver symptom is a car that refuses to point. You may feel that as understeer, a need for extra steering angle, or a line that drifts wider than expected.

The fix is not a slogan. It is a budget adjustment. You can reduce the braking request sooner. You can enter a little slower. You can turn in from a better mark so the required lateral force is smaller. Or, in a more advanced blend, you can carry a smaller, better-timed brake request that loads the front without consuming too much longitudinal budget. The sibling brake-release lesson owns that detailed timing. The point here is that all of those fixes work through the same contact patch account.

Run this example mentally every time the car will not turn. Ask which part of the 500-lb-style budget you spent before blaming the tire, the alignment, or the corner.

Worked example: the corner before the longest straight

Lowum's corner-analysis passage gives the most practical way to decide whether your contact-patch spending was smart. Pick the corner that leads onto the longest following straight. That corner matters because an exit-speed gain is carried for a long distance before the next braking zone.

On the first run, you brake late and carry more speed to the apex. It feels aggressive. But at exit, the car is still using too much lateral budget, so you have to wait before adding throttle. Track-out speed is lower than expected. The grip budget was spent at entry, where it looked exciting, and was unavailable at exit, where it would have paid you back down the straight.

On the second run, you back off entry slightly while keeping the same turn-in and track-out marks. The car accepts the turn without a second steering correction. You can begin the throttle pickup sooner because the exit patches have more budget available for acceleration. If the speed advantage carries down the straight, you did not drive the corner more timidly. You spent the contact patch budget in a higher-value place.

This example also explains why a faster exit may force the next change. Lowum notes that added speed down the straight can require adjustment to the next braking point. That is a good problem. It means the previous corner's budget allocation improved enough to change the next corner's entry condition.

Worked example: the small front-load breathe

The Jeremy Dale passage in the friction-circle chunk describes a familiar turn-in problem: without a small lift, the car does not want to turn; with a small breath on the throttle, enough weight moves to the front that the car turns in much better. The useful lesson is not that every car wants a lift in every corner. The useful lesson is that front contact-patch capacity depends on load state as well as steering angle.

If you approach a corner with the front tires underloaded, the steering wheel can ask for lateral force that the patches are not ready to provide. A tiny reduction in throttle can shift the load state enough to wake the front patches up. But if you lift too much or too abruptly, you may overload the front, unload the rear, or create an instability that costs more than it gives. The contact patch model keeps the cue honest: you are not lifting because lifting is magic. You are changing load so the tires needed for turn-in can do the next job.

Practice reading the difference between a car that needs a little front-load help and a car that is simply being overdriven on entry. If the small lift makes the car accept the same line with less steering and no exit delay, the load timing improved. If the lift makes the rear nervous or still leaves you waiting at exit, the problem was not solved by that load change alone.

Common mistakes and what good looks like

Mistake 1: The later-brake-marker trophy. The driver judges the corner by how late braking starts. The lap feels brave, but exit throttle is delayed and track-out speed falls. Good looks like judging the corner by the speed you carry away from it, especially when the following straight is long.

Mistake 2: The extra-steering rescue. The car will not turn, so the driver adds more steering angle. At the contact patch, that is just another lateral-force request added to a tire that is already saturated. Good looks like reducing one demand first: less remaining brake, slightly lower entry speed, or better load timing before asking for more direction change.

Mistake 3: The coasting comfort zone. The driver releases the brake early, waits, then turns, then waits again before throttle. The car feels calm, but the contact patches are not being used purposefully. Good looks like a connected sequence where the brake release, lateral load, and throttle pickup each prepare the next tire job.

Mistake 4: The tire-cliff myth. The driver waits until the tire slides before believing the limit is near. Good looks like reacting to earlier warning signs: the patch relaxing, the steering response dulling, the line widening, or the throttle needing to wait.

Mistake 5: The invalid test lap. The driver changes the braking point, turn-in, line, and throttle pickup all at once, then draws a conclusion from the lap time or feel. Good looks like hitting marks consistently and changing one part of the grip budget at a time.

Mistake 6: The equipment excuse. The driver assumes a wider or better tire will fix the corner without changing inputs. Good looks like recognizing that tire quality, pressure, footprint, and coefficient of friction can raise available grip, but the patch still has one shared budget.

Drill: the contact-patch budget audit

Use this drill at your next event in one medium-speed or slower corner with safe runoff and a clear following straight. Do not choose the most intimidating corner on the property. Choose a corner where you can repeat your marks and notice exit quality.

Session 1, laps 2 through 5: establish marks. Use the out lap to warm the car and your attention. Then run four laps at a comfortable pace while protecting the same brake reference, turn-in point, apex or clipping reference, and track-out reference. Do not chase speed yet. The success criterion is that you can identify whether you actually hit the marks. If you cannot, the drill stops there because Lowum's comparison rule says the exit-speed evidence will not be valid.

Session 1, laps 6 through 8: name the budget. On each lap, say the dominant tire job in your head as you pass through the corner: brake, share, lateral, accelerate. The success criterion is that the words match the car's behavior. If you are still braking hard while saying lateral, or adding throttle while the wheel is still heavily turned and the car is running out of road, the patch budget is not being named honestly.

Session 2: test entry relief. Keep the same line references. Give up a small amount of entry demand by braking a touch earlier, releasing a touch more cleanly before turn-in, or carrying slightly less entry speed. Do not change all three. The success criterion is earlier throttle acceptance or cleaner track-out with no extra steering rescue. If the car exits faster or carries better speed onto the straight, the budget was better spent. If it only feels slower everywhere, return to baseline and test a smaller change.

Session 3: test load timing. Keep the same safe pace and marks. In the chosen corner, compare a completely neutral turn-in against a tiny, smooth front-load change such as a small throttle breath where appropriate for the car and corner. The success criterion is not drama. It is whether the front accepts the turn with less steering correction and whether the rear remains stable. If the change helps the front but hurts the rear or delays exit throttle, it is not a net improvement.

End the drill with a two-sentence note. First sentence: where the contact patch was over budget. Second sentence: what budget trade made the exit better or worse. If you cannot write those two sentences, you gathered laps but not evidence.

When this principle breaks down

The principle does not break down in the sense that the contact patch stops mattering. It breaks down only when you stretch the simple classroom model beyond what this lesson is trying to teach.

The friction circle is a first model. Real tires, surfaces, constructions, temperatures, pressures, and load states can make the available force envelope more complex than a perfect circle. The bonded corpus itself hints at complexity through coefficient of friction, vertical load, pressure effects, footprint shape, slip angle, and nonlinear load sensitivity. For this lesson, the circle is useful because it teaches shared capacity. Later lessons can refine the shape.

The wider-tire discussion is another boundary. One source emphasizes width and larger footprint as more traction. Another warns that total patch area may remain constant for a given vehicle weight while patch shape changes. Do not turn that tension into paddock folklore. Treat it as a reminder that tire engineering is complicated and that your driver job remains the same: manage the finite patch you actually have on that lap.

Driver aids are also outside this lesson's authority. ABS, traction control, and stability systems may change how a car handles a near-limit request, but they still operate through the tire-road interface. This module has a sibling lesson on respecting controls without depending on them. The contact patch remains the final arbiter.

Author Review

No quiz questions are attached to this lesson.

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