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Originally Posted by ThunderMoose
This past year, Paul Costas started to drive a detuned corvette that makes 280 whp but it's a flat 280 whp from 3500 to 7500 rpm. He broke my COTA record by 5 seconds and destroyed everyone at Nationals. He's a great driver and has a car perfectly tuned for TT3 and can jump over to TT2 and kick butt there.
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I thought the avg HP calc was supposed to penalize detunes?
I think with WT:HP classing, 10:1 isn't always 10:1 in TT3. Probably a lot slower at 3500 lbs than 2500 lbs if both are 10:1. I don't think the NASA weight penalties are high enough to counteract that. For one, you can account for much less fuel consumption.
It will be interesting...I'm trying to be at the absolute minimum weight and then match the HP to it. I guess the results will tell the story.