Ahhh, the old "Speed Vs. Handing" debate, it will forever remain in motorsports as the question everyone knows, and at the same time doesn't know the answer to
I'll weigh my opinion in, but please, if and when you start quoting me telling me I'm wrong, please bear in mind it is purely my opinion.
In my opinion, speed is meaningless when the amount of speed is negligible to your competition, as it is in most of the online events in Prologue. Yes, you can be a good deal faster than the rest, and this all depends track by track, but if you take Suzuka for example, the fact that my car can pull upwards of 30 MPH (I have no idea what that is in KM's) faster down the straights than you is moot, because the straights are few and far between, and while I'm braking earlier, taking wide, cautious turns, and slowly accelerating out, you're zipping through the S bends with ease, like a little daredevil, and more than making up for the straights with the fact that you can most certainly maintain a faster average speed through them. In my opinion, if you take any track that contains a good deal of turns, cornering is priority. If you can lose me through 10 corners and gain ground on me all the while, the difference between you and me will probably be such that gaining ground on the 1 or 2 straights seems worthless, and as the race progresses, you'll begin to notice it right away.
This is another reason why I don't believe in mixing drivetrains for competition. Now, you can say what you want to, but a car such as the GT-R will out perfrom a Corvette any day of the week. All this understeer and excuses I here, the fact of the matter is your car can grip the track much easier with simple torque adjustments. RWD's shouldn't be competing with anything but RWD's, and the same should be said for AWD's and FWD's. If you're just screwing around, mucking it up, fine and dandy, but for serious competition, there's no excuse for that. If you want real serious competition, all cars should be the same and that's that, but one of the biggest differences I see made are drivetrain differences. I know, I know, all you AWD users are probably going to pounce on me, call me a RWD fanatic and whatnot, and you'd be right, I like my RWD cars, but the fact of the matter is you know you have a clear advantage on me when it comes to cornering speed and style. I'm not saying it makes you a bad competitor, I'm just saying if anyone is looking for bragging rights and serious competition, you need to really level the playing field for everyone.
I'm sorry to those who disagree, but this is my feelings on the whole thing. I believe cornering is a priority, and I believe that AWD cars have the clear advantage in that department. This is your style and taste, and I have nothing against it, I just prefer the raw power, speed, and the unpredicatable, delicate style of driving a high end RWD. It's sort of a rush to know that the slightest screw up has a domino effect in a RWD, whereas with your Skylines and Lancers, you'd have to try pretty hard to seriously put yourself at risk.
So take some HP away and work on geting the rear and front to stick better. One other thing, you could also make the gears taller, if you know how to. If not the tuning forum can help!
It's not that I didn't have the thought, I just didn't have it long...
I know you started behind me in the few races I tried that car at Suzuka last night. You probably had a good view of a couple of my spins. It's SO hard not to spin it at 750pp with no assists!
