[Pat]

Thanks, Andrew. My car is definitely a compromise. I go skiing with it (Colorado) 20+ days annually, take it on 2,000 mile road trips, and compete with it. While I have driven coilovers on the track with stiffer, linear-rate springs, I haven't found them to really be any faster. Granted, I'm not on R7s, A7s, R1s, or R1Ses, either. Normally I'm on SX2s or RC1s. Maybe a better driver would be able to appreciate linear-rate springs in the rear more than me, but given the rest of the hardware package I'm working with, I doubt it would make much of a difference. I believe the spring ratios between front and rear have a WAY bigger impact on lap times. WAY bigger. Getting the car to rotate like you want matters a lot. There's no way I'd know the rears aren't linear if someone didn't tell me. And I don't think my car is unpredictable in the slightest. Quite the opposite, in fact.