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Originally Posted by bruce.augenstein@comcast.
Over some distance like a quarter mile, the car that makes the best power to weight over that distance (and time span) will tend to win. Obviously, gearing and gear spacing now get important because they will change average power over that distance. Yeah, it's a simplification, but you get my drift.
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That was my point. Overall performance numbers although relatively insensitive to precise gearing choices, you can see some changes. Times to speed and trap speeds seem to be more sensitive than time to distance. Some key metrics like 60-130 can change quite a bit with gearing. And a string of those (varying the 60 and 130 numbers) are what make up the easy straights on a road coarse. I'm actually surprised how robust distance vs. time is to gearing changes.