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Originally Posted by BlueBlood
First round: all the guys that built light cars have to add weight to match the heavy cars? Why not a weight figure that everyine builds to and stick to it.
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You can't "build" a car to a weight, you build the car lighter than you need it and then ballast it, with the added benefit of improving weight distribution or cross weights.
Pretty much you're always going to build something like this as light as you can get away with, then put as much weight as you can as low as possible, and wherever in the car it most improves the handling.
As for reliability/engine temps, no testing can ever duplicate what happens in a race meeting.