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Originally Posted by insite
the car with the highest average horsepower AT THE WHEELS over a given distance wins the race.
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This is simply NOT TRUE!!!! Spend some time at the rack track. Your Porsche can make 250whp between 4500rpm and 6500rpm range steady but a car that makes 200whp starting at 4500rpm and makes 300whp at 6500rpm will be faster.
Highest peak HP wins. It doesn't matter if it makes it over a wider range or not. Accelerations is one thing, you can math that to death, but the motors ability to accelerate or rev in a gear is a whole other story. The second car has higher peak power but less power overall will be faster. You simply can NOT argue this, it's a proven fact, goto a drag racing forum and ask, they will math you to death.
Even in the car with 250whp over a steady range will still want to shift at the highest absolute RPM point even if power is dropping off at that point, it will still be faster.
It's not about the most power across a band, is ONLY about the most power. Stop using math, and goto the race track and see what happens. Cars with big long flat power bands can get beaten by cars with lots of peak HP, because thats what wins races.
You guys are argueing with text books in a argument that takes races in real cars. You can't justify it with math, goto the track you'll figure it all out there.
This is as bad as the bench racing at clubsi for god sakes.
