Has anybody ever won "like the wind" with a FF car?

[Tornado]

The Ginetta G4 is seriously an underrated car in this game. With a little suspension work and some downforce, it is a rocketship.

And how does one accomplish that?

 

[D-Mind]

The Ginetta G4 is seriously an underrated car in this game. With a little suspension work and some downforce, it is a rocketship.

This was proved recently in the Weekly Drag Series, week 4 thread - would you believe that car can do the quarter mile in 9.7 seconds?

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=92314

Good job on using an FF car to beat this race, by the way 👍

Can you share your settings with me? I'm not a guy who knows what to do with settings, and a ginetta that can do a quarter mile in 9.7 seconds sounds great 👍

 

[PeterJB]

The Ginetta G4 is FR right??

Yes it is.

If you used a completely stock FF car the fastest you could possibly go is 160mph in a Citroen Xsara Rally Car. Why are they still making front-wheel drive rally cars in this day and age?

 

[Alonsomania]

Yes it is.

If you used a completely stock FF car the fastest you could possibly go is 160mph in a Citroen Xsara Rally Car. Why are they still making front-wheel drive rally cars in this day and age?

I *believe* the old Formula 2 rules required cars to be 2 wheel drive, and the 2 wheel drive cars always were quite fast in tarmac rallies.

Arent the modern S1600 rallycars two wheel either, or are they 4 wheel drive now?

 

[PeterJB]

I *believe* the old Formula 2 rules required cars to be 2 wheel drive, and the 2 wheel drive cars always were quite fast in tarmac rallies.

Arent the modern S1600 rallycars two wheel either, or are they 4 wheel drive now?

Pretty much all rally cars have to be 4WD now, otherwise their unbelievably hard to control.

 

[Scaff]

Pretty much all rally cars have to be 4WD now, otherwise their unbelievably hard to control.

Not quite true, while the FIA WRC championship is only open to 4WD cars, a great number of other FIA series have classification for FWD cars, particularly the regional series such as the FIA European, African, Middle Eastern and Asia Pacific championships. In addition the official WRC feeder series, the Junior WRC Championship (of which Seb Loeb is a graduate and former champion) is only open to FWD cars.

The championship is reserved for drivers taking part in the qualifying rallies of this championship using cars with front wheel drive and a total length of between 3600 and 4150 mm.

Source (and full regs) - http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/559941499__JuniorWRC_regs.pdf


All this is without getting into the various national and regional championships and events that are regularly run with FWD cars.


Regards

Scaff

 

[Diego440]

plus, many tarmac rally races admit (and are won by) FWD cars

 

[Dark Elite]

And someone tell me again that front-wheel-drive cars are harder to control on loose surfaces than four-wheel-drive cars.

Not entirely sure this thread was worth dusting off for that comment, but never mind that now...

Has anyone tried this race with the Suzuki GSX/R4? Capable as it is, I'm sure, of winning - it'll reach 275mph if my memory serves well. That could be the least powerful car able to win

DE

 

[Diego440]

And someone tell me again that front-wheel-drive cars are harder to control on loose surfaces than four-wheel-drive cars.


DE

I'm assuming it's because FWD cars have the engine and the traction in front, making the weight be almost completely there, and making the rear weight be pretty much inutilized, so it'll slide more.

I've always thought of the example of the shopping cart (the type where the rear wheels don't turn). If you stand on the front of it, and put all the weight more to the front than to the rear, it'll be harder to turn is than if it is evenly balanced and pushed from the back.

whereas 4WD cars have traction coming from all sides.

 

[Fruitcake]

I *believe* the old Formula 2 rules required cars to be 2 wheel drive, and the 2 wheel drive cars always were quite fast in tarmac rallies.

Arent the modern S1600 rallycars two wheel either, or are they 4 wheel drive now?

The Xsara F2 kitcar actually won 2 WRC event's almost 10 years ago


"Since then, 4WD has formed an integral part of the World Rally Championship. Then again, the shock performances of 1998 by Philippe Bugalski's two-wheel-drive Citroën Xsara F2 on asphalt surfaces - outpacing the best 4WD WRC machines at the San Remo and Corsica events - underline the fact the technology is more suited to rough and loose surfaces. In the pre-war days 4WD would have been a godsent."

http://www.forix.com/8w/4wd69.html