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Originally Posted by random
Perhaps what you meant was that 50/50 (or 53/47) is ideal for a car with the engine in the front? I can't imagine 50/50 (or 53/47) would be good for those cars with mid-mounted engines where the weight distribution is closer to 45/55.
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Don't drink the BMW kool-aid. There's nothing all that great about a 50/50 weight distribution, no matter where your engine is. 53/47 is a good place for the AS1 to be based on it's power level, given that the engineers wanted it to be a little tail happy under throttle.
For going fast around a race track in a RWD car, the "ideal" weight distribution is in the range of 45/55 to 40/60 depending on cg height and power to weight ratio. Staggered tire widths keeps the contact patches nearly evenly loaded front to rear for optimum cornering grip. Rearward load transfer puts a large majority of the load on the rear tires for extra traction out of a corner, and forward load transfer under braking more evenly distributes load for shorter braking distances.