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Man, seriously you can't compare cars on the track.... Weight is weight period. It does make the car handle better in corners under breaking and under acceleration period. For comparing cars, that ebisu east course is a power course. Long corners and uphill are for power. If we were more on a flat track with less elevation change and more technical tracks would be an S2k track. Hence that is what the late Tanabe-san from Amuse said at the beginning, both cars have different characteristics therefore the track can make a huge difference.
Adequate power is important, but on our S chassis that is totally not balanced, suspension and rear downforce is the most important period. I do trackdays a lot and so does racepar and lot of other guys that spank porsches all day. But whatever, weight is an all around factor, HP means nothing. 20WHP difference vs 20lb loss, I'd take the 20lb loss especially in the front end of the S chassis. So we can't say a 100/30 whp/tq difference can be made up that easily, but a 20-30 whp can be with weight.
I will be at Laguna and another track this month, hopefully I get some video hahaha....
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