stigs2cousin
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Paddy Hopkirk won the Monte in a Mini in 1964, Pat Moss (Stirling's sister), and her husband Erik Carlson had many top 5 results in in a fwd Saab, John Cooper won (overall and class) for many years in the British Saloon Car Championship, etc etc
And which of this cars had "power" in triple digits?
These whole FWD shenanigans are out of marketing reasons, they wanted cars the public can relate to (win on Sunday......)
Does anybody here know of a purpose built sports/race car that is FWD
Not a platform derivative like TT or Barcheta, but FWD chosen for it´s advantages
And about the infancy remark, the engineers (back to the wall) found ways to make moderately high powered FWD cars behave with the "Revo Knuckle" (Focus RS and Meghane RS) but it´s way to expensive for the mainstream.
And with higher power levels they admitted defeat and went AWD, Audi even tried to spin it as a feature
Lately they had a lot of success in TCR with electronic torque vectoring, but that only shows that FWD has grown up (and todays driver can´t do without Nannys.
CHANGE MY MIND
I just don´t see the need to drive around hardware limitations if I can afford a better solutionFWD in motorsport wasn't in it's infancy in the BTCC (the era these cars are), just some that can'tleft foot brakeget their head 'round it
(btw, I prefer rwd)
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