[bhtooefr]

Wow, this turned nasty.

Anyway, on that "competitive advantage" front... I'll use the 1989 Dodge Daytona IMSA that I was talking about.

They ran both front and rear-drivers on the same chassis, and used the race as an experiment.

Basically, they found that the front-driver was 2 seconds slower (IIRC, this was at Mid-Ohio that the article I had read was written at). However, a driver untrained in the car could get those laptimes almost right away, whereas a driver of the RWD car had a long learning curve before he or she could approach the FWD's laptimes.

Meaning, a race team could theoretically spend less money on their driver, and more time on chassis tuning, engine tuning, suspension tuning, etc., etc. Or, it could allow a low-budget team to be more competitive.

I've been trying to find the article for a while, I know it was posted online SOMEWHERE...