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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I want to agree, and I see what you are saying about launch control, but from what I've read in the past, the hp ratings for the gtr is conservative, not to mention the weight difference is significant between the 2 cars. I would wager a gtr is closer to 600hp typically. so imo these cars are not similar enough, the weight difference is ~20% and the hp difference is ~12%
But you bring up a point of view from which I was looking at it all- drag racing. if tech usurps brute force then top fuel dragsters and funny cars would have it in spades and not need 7000+ hp to win races. But the fact is those cars need brute force to win because current tech does not win races more than hp does.
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You need huge amounts of horsepower to go faster as times get shorter. You need it exponentially. You NEED to have horsepower to go fast, but the technology to harness that horsepower is just as important, and arguable more so. If you took a drag car from the 1970s and gave it 7000 horsepower you wouldn't compete with a modern drag car, you'd just die.