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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Necessary" data-source="post: 102766" data-attributes="member: 302">E46f,I do not quote any references because I can't be bothered to dig up "facts" to back up what should be instinctive to a person who knows how to drive.For example, your little quote from "Speed Secrets";"You goal is to drive in a way to keep the weight of the car as equally distributed over all four tires as possible. In other words, balance the car... (on pg 44: balance describes the cars weight is equally distributed on all four tires . When the car is balanced, you are maximizing the tires traction. The more traction the car has the more in control the car is and the faster you can drive around the track (btw he elaborates quite a bit on effects of weight transfers etc as well in this section of the book)"Reads great to an armchair driver like yourself, who automatically assumes that the author is referring to how the vehicle is engineered, but to a person who acutally knows how to drive, he'll be asking himself; "how do I keep the car balanced in all situations (ie. when the car is moving, and not static)?", and will come to the inevitable conclusion that static 50:50 weight distribution on a front engined, rear wheel driven car, is not the way to achieve "balance".</blockquote>