What's the most successful high power FWD car that's run in a major international road race series?

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

wvumtnbkr wrote: End of thread.

Sorry. hte BTCC Super Touring build blow this into the weeds

You said most successful.... Not fastest.

Realtime said: In 1997, the team’s World Challenge Touring Car program transitioned to the Acura Integra Type R. RealTime drivers won championships with this model in 1997 (Pierre Kleinubing), 1998 (Galati), 2000 (Kleinubing), 2001 (Kleinubing) and 2002 (Cunningham). The strength of RealTime’s Integra program gave Acura its first four World Challenge Manufacturers’ Championships: 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002.

The Integra Type R would go down as the most successful car model in the history of the World Challenge Touring Car category, scoring more wins, poles and championships than any other model before or since. A winning example of RealTime’s Integra Type R resides in the Honda museum.[2]

RexSeven wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

Knurled wrote:

racerfink wrote: Dodge Daytona IMSA GTU car

Came to say this.

This is new to me. Details?

I found a couple of sites including a comparison drive of the FWD vs. RWD. Sounds like Chrysler made both FWD and RWD versions, but only one complete RWD IMSA Daytona still exists. http://www.bgperformance.com/cars/bg-performance-dodge-championship-winning-vehicle/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150910152526/http://home.comcast.net/~cvetters3/test1.htm

When I was a kid, I had that issue of C&D and read that article about a bazillion times.

RWD was slightly faster but the FWD car was far easier to drive - they said they could get up to near race pace without much thought, but the RWD car needed to worked gradually and deliberately faster, a bit here, a bit there.

And they were having problems getting heat in the rear tires of the FWD car.

wvumtnbkr wrote: You said most successful.... Not fastest. Realtime said: In 1997, the team’s World Challenge Touring Car program transitioned to the Acura Integra Type R. RealTime drivers won championships with this model in 1997 (Pierre Kleinubing), 1998 (Galati), 2000 (Kleinubing), 2001 (Kleinubing) and 2002 (Cunningham). The strength of RealTime’s Integra program gave Acura its first four World Challenge Manufacturers’ Championships: 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002. The Integra Type R would go down as the most successful car model in the history of the World Challenge Touring Car category, scoring more wins, poles and championships than any other model before or since. A winning example of RealTime’s Integra Type R resides in the Honda museum.[2]

And then Honda(Acura) pukes out the RSX as it's successor. That was why Realtime switched to the heavier sedan TSX in 04.

All the bi-winged Scion records are falling to a Civic with much more "normal" exterior dimensions.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/puFC_DPck-8

http://www.seat-sport.com/leon-cup-racer-2015-technical-data/

/thread. No really, this one beats every FWD ever. At least its predecessor did. Why this? 330hp. So powerful. Successful? It's got it's own cup race! Fast? Beat the pants off everything for a long time, only recently did Renault and Honda take the quickest Nurburgring times. And the new Cupra probably will take it back.

Keith Tanner wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote: The old F2 rally cars were similar specs although a hair less power and could beat the 4WD WRC cars on dry stages with less power, less torque and obviously less weight.

Especially when being driven by Monsieur Loeb, if memory serves

Actually IIRC, Phillipe Bugalski, was more successful in the Xsara kit car (or F2) then Loeb.

Loeb took over mostly when the car was in WRC spec.