cornering Options

[beno]

Just a quick question

Does a fwd car have better cornering than a rwd car?
Not including drifting


Thanks

[creis]

my personal opinion is this, rwd cars are harder (not nessisarily slower) because (unless really underpowered) the back end will swing hard and you have to counter steer to make up for the back end trying to over take the front, fwd cars that i've seen and when racing my celica are much easyer but have to go slower into the turn but can pull hard out of it, It seems that since they are quite a bit unbalanced (weight front to back) they cant turn sharp at speed the wheels wash out and slide straght, but once in the turn you can pull hard and not have much issue, plus if you do swing the back end around just punch the gas and line up the wheel, it will straighten out. now awd cars are compleatly diff, they hold the advantage of both in that there weight (front to rear) tends to be more ballanced and you can pull hard thought the corner without breaking the back loose.

(asuming that all things are equal, susp, tires ext.)

the shorter the wheelbase (the smaller the car) the more its going to take to break the back end loose, thus you can push it harder, mini's and miatas are great examples, however ( i race scca) its kinda weird because whiles they kick my a$$ they cant take the 90's 944's idk what it is about em there not much diff from a celica (shape/weight etc.) but the onces I see kill. and of corse the 914's are always good.