The One lap of america, was open to ANYONE. The one lap of america IS NOT representative of the best drivers in the country. Therefore, driver easily accounts for a lot of what happened at onelap. Heck, this "national" event only had 93 cars entered in it. Look at an SCCA championship national event. You have probably that same number of cars in A-stock and B-stock alone! Not to mention, it's not open to anyone who's got the money to enter. You actually have to compete your way into such a championship race.

bottom line is, mod for mod, the SRT4 would get owned in the handling department by just about any RWD or AWD vehicle.

face facts. the SRT4 is a POOR all around performer. it excels in straight line capacity and that's it. Hell, look at dodge, they had to once again create an ACR version of the SRT4 just to be COMPETITIVE in D-stock, and even then it's nothing more than mid tier.

 

It is VERY flawed. as i said, one lap of america did NOT have anywhere NEAR the "best drivers" available for the cars that were driven.


Per their website:

"What does it take to run in the Tire Rack Car and Driver Cannonball One Lap of America? A car of course (and there's a competition class to fit every automobile). The entry fee ($2500). A minimum of two drivers who have each had some racing experience (and/or two drivers' schools). "

haha yeah, that narrows it down to the best drivers in the country alright.

 

John Heinricy also drove a modded Cobalt SS to beat a slew of highly-modded cars (including rwd and 4wd imports) in a recent invitational competition. Does this mean you should take respect the Cobalt? Feh. Respect Mr. Hein-rocket.

 

I agree. in cases such as that respect the driver, not the car. he was the better driver that day.

 

So were the STi's and Evo. Contradicting ? No, not at all. My simple point is that an SRT-4 beat modified AWD/RWD competition amongst others at the One Lap, nothing more, nothing less. I feel no hurt and could care less if the SRT-4 does not shine on an SCCA Solo course in stock format (sigh, fanboy redeems himself). If that makes you feel better, all the power to you.

 

bro i dont know who youre calling fanboy, but its a fact that fwd is inferior in both road-race conditions and drag conditions. thank god wisconsin came out and said what i was trying to get at. i feel like im taking crazy pills listening to this guy talk about equally modded rwd/awd cars losing to fwd cars.
-Chris

 

[QUOTE=nalVle,Apr 12 2006, 10:32 AM] bro i dont know who youre calling fanboy, but its a fact that fwd is inferior in both road-race conditions and drag conditions.

 

Which still leaves the driver aspect. You're entire argument that the SRT4 is a great all around performer rests solely on this "one lap of america" when it's more than obvious the results here are hardly representative of the car's involved and their true capabilities with the best drivers. there were far lesser drivers in the STi's/EVO's than there were in the SRT4. period!

I can run a geo metro around a track faster than my mom could run that track with my S2000.... so should i come on here and use that as an example of how great an all around performer the metro is?

 

albeit against much poorer drivers than were in the SRT4. which is why this "one lap" event can't be used with any kind of merit or even in any seriousness.

so me providing instances where the BEST DRIVERS compete their way to the top championship races, thus giving us a MUCH better picture of how the SRT4 is actually capable of performing, is me being a "fanboy"?? your one lap argument is so ridiculous it's not even worth talking about any more. if you're going to use "race results" as your entire basis of argument, you might want to find something more concrete that actually has substance and merit to it.

what's next, we're going to determine who's car is fastest using magazine 1/4 mile times?

 

please point out my grammar mistakes. its funny too...name-calling coming from a 32 year old.
-Chris