I’m gonna bet 2 seconds, because that was also the birth of the TIGHTEN THE SLIPPER WHEELIES BACKFLIPS WHEELIES BACKFLIPS crowd. Seriously, the most amount of damage I’ve seen in racing outside of Tx problems/driver error is because of poorly set slippers. Takes like 20 seconds to set it, no idea why you would…

People have been doing this stuff for ages. I remember the big influx when everyone got the first Castle systems.

As Oppo’s Super GT journalist, I came here just to mention the thing about horsepower. No car has stuck to the namesake limts for 15 years. GT500 cars run at about 700+ (Honda in the 750-ish range) and GT300 cars run anywhere from about 430 to 600, depending on car. Bearing in mind they nab the BoP from the SRO. Stef…

It’s virtually impossible to destroy a Supercar. It can finish on 2 wheels with no tyres, and the bodywork is just plastic, it could just run as a bare frame. Same with Lites. S1600/Touring Cars there’s a lot less speed involved, so the damage isn’t really race ending unless you roll it. Sponsors are fully aware of…

It’s fine if you just don’t enjoy races that short, but dismissing it as pure survival is very naive. Consistency is one of they key traits of a good rallycross driver, as well as fine car control - because the races are so short, you need to find a flat-out rhythm and make no errors. GRC is not representative of true…

Also worth pointing out that more cars is a very very bad idea - GRC is the only series which has ever tried to shove more than 6 cars on a track, and it is a major contributing factor to the majority of the pileups. Regarding the laps, rallycross is sprint racing - GRC Finals are unusually long as it is, most Finals…

GRC still isn’t proper rallycross. It’s kind of getting there, but it still isn’t. A lot of the tracks are still stop/start, the Jokers being a shortcut is still a ridiculous concept, and they do have carnage-fests because of it. Rallycross is a contact sport, by nature - but when you see some proper classic European…

It is majority FWD in all the places it can be, but in the only area FWD really struggles (corner exit) it becomes majority RWD 4WD. Just trying to combat the logical fallacy of the lack of pace being attributable to the layout.

Oh, and if you want FWD/RWD stats, there aren’t many series which pitch the two together properly. Nevertheless, in the past 20 years of BTCC championship winners, there have been 17 FWD, 1 4WD and 2 RWD. In Independents, there have been 16 FWD championship winners and 4 RWD. WTCC, there are no TC1 RWD cars because…

No, just general spring rates and alignment tweaks. Once you learn how your car wears its tyres, it’s much easier to work from that information. Much nicer to sacrifice a few tenths and get a car that stays consistent (big rear camber for example, stops it from oversteering initially partly because of the contact…

How is 450 out of 1300 “majority” horsepower? It’s majority rear, like every other car. They’re the only team doing it because there’s a window in the regulations that gives them an advantage. And yes, they do hope to win with this car. I find it funny that you’re trying to attribute the lack of pace to the drivetrain…

That is one thing that a lot of FWD racers discover when they first enter motorsport, because they don’t have a lot of setup knowledge (and they churn through sets of fronts). If you work it out over time, you do get roughly 50/50 tyre wear. Aggressive setups work for sprint races, conservative setups work very well…

Watch a normal FWD car race - why do you think in qualifying runs they burn the fronts up for a lap and then swap the front tyres to the rear? Why did S2000 cars run with extreme rear camber levels? A FWD car will want to understeer on power - that can be controlled very easily. When you brake or lift off, say your…

Flaws in your argument: You’re looking to the past and other regulations. Look at modern technology and this current window in the regulations. FWD has one issue - traction issues on power. That is being minimised through mapping in categories such as TC1, enabling them to reach GT3 speeds. Problem 2: The car is not…

Going for a new battery supplier, the deal was apparently made before Le Mans had started. It’s much better to make the car as fast as possible and bulletproof now.

Please explain with your presumably limitless experience of motorsport engineering why a FWD drivetrain is a failure. Bearing in mind that FWD cars are set up to understeer because of their natural tendencies to oversteer, torque steer is a product of unequal length driveshafts and is something that can be eliminated…