Considering how grippy drag racing slicks are I feel like there would be a shoe equivalent
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There are super grippy shoes. Rock climbers use them. The soles will actually be tacky. Shoe traction has a limit against the strength of the legs of the person wearing them. If you made shoes so sticky, the athlete wouldn’t be able to separate the shoes from the ground.
Racing slicks allow more horsepower to be transferred to the ground than normal tire traction would allow. More traction enables you to build more powerful engines, more hp pushes tire manufacturers to make stickier tires.
Stickier shoes can’t be equaled and matched by stronger athletes in the same hp/traction race.
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