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Originally posted by Green Monster
A car that is continuously accelerating gets real challenging when the driver gets to the turn at the end of the straight. Chumps back off sooner than champions.
IMSA GTP cars weren't 400 horsepower cars. Depending on the year and the boost level they were as much as a 1,000 horsepower car.
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Its not about who has the biggest balls mate, its about who goes around a lap quickest. Sure you can have 2000bhp if you like but this just results in a probably undrivable car. With that amount of power the grip of the rear wheels would easily be overcome in a corner situation, meaning the throttle could not be used until almost at the exit of the corner when in fact ideally you want to be on the power from the apex out. That would basically make a 1000 bhp engine in the same chassis much quicker around a lap than the 2000bhp so nobody would build a car with that much power anyway.
Just think of it this way. The Cam-am porsches were getting close to undrivable with 1000+bhp. In a hairpin aero has little or no effect, so you can imagine how hard it would be to put the power down. At the end of the day, drivability is the deciding factor.