10-18-2005, 03:35 PM
Mike Wrote:G.Irish Wrote:FWD useless? I suppose that's why a TSX took the World Challenge Touring championship and a RSX won the BTCC title this year eh?
yay for restrictions! x car in fwd against x car in rwd, rwd will win.
All things being equal yes. So if there was a fwd 325 and a rwd 325 and they both weighed the same, then the rwd 325 would win (in the dry).
But all things are not equal. There are lot of other components of performance a given fwd racecar could excel at which could give it an advantage over a rwd car in a race. Weight, power, suspension design, chassis rigidity, and aerodynamics are all factors that can help a fwd car overcome its inherent deficit against a rwd car. However, when you start raising the power level it starts becoming exponentially more difficult to overcome that disadvantage. This is why you don't see any purpose built fwd racecars (i.e. prototypes, formula cars). I'd say right around 300 hp is where the difficulty raises significantly.
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