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take the quickest FWD race car in Ireland currently, the ex demo J's racing CRX. amazing car... but doesnt cock a wheel and runs softer springs rear.
so i suppose its down to driver style and setup... either way you will need testing!!!!!
This is probably the setup balance I am aiming for as it is what I consider to be fastest, but I think the key here is that there is no 'right' answer. Either way can be fast as proved by both the Japs and the Americans, but I think personally for me, keeping that rear wheel on the ground is the way to go on track.
Obviously with the way you throw a car around at an autox it is inevitable under some conditions, the car transitions through the three phases of a corner so quickly there is no time for the suspension to settle and so it is really rather hard to model what is happening. The way I see it, lifting makes you understeer, drive traction excluded, but you guys say it doesn't. This interests me and I would like to understand how this works as I like to explore these things myself rather than just taking someone elses word for it. I appreciate you condradicting my findings so far as it tells me that they are inconclusive (I expected they would be). If you didn't, I'd accept what I had found as being correct when it was not.
Testing as you say, is the best, but is not an option open to me. I have a tarmac autotest with 6x 60 second runs once every 6 weeks or so through the winter, and I live an hours boat journey and three hours from the closest race circuit.
Figuring this stuff out on paper is testing to me.
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