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Originally Posted by DaWorstPlaya
I would say the course was high speed sweeper and high speed transition heavy that's why the FRS performed better than normal and the Focus RS appeared much worse. Also the fact that the Focus RS wasn't launched hard which is usually worth 0.5sec. Course design always has an effect on results. Sorry but IMHO, the test course used was not a good indicator of the true performance potential of the cars. The Focus RS is not a DS car.
Also factor the length of the course, which was short. National courses are usually twice as long, which means multiply the time difference by a factor of 2. The courses at Nationals and our local courses generally favor power/acceleration more. This years courses were turn around and flat out acceleration. The west course gave you the illusion of slaloms but if you lined up correctly they were flat out. Kinda changes the picture, IMHO.
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Before this test I would have absolutely agreed that the Twins were outgunned in DS. After driving Jonathan's car, I'm not so sure. Even though the course was short, put a transitional element less than 100' from the start and add one cone to each slalom...and I guarantee the FRS would be the fastest car in this test.
I now firmly believe that if I had a Twin on the East course I could have gone faster than I did in the Camaro.