[ChrisL]

The reality is, of coarse, that it makes very little difference from a handling perspective unless you're driving either of them at their limits.

Under these conditions, a good mid-engined car requires a specialised technique if you were to get the highest corner speed out of it.

This techniquie requires you to drive it hard into a corner to the point of slight understeer, and then power it through to promote a little oversteer (to counter the understeer).

If you were to drive it a little slower through the corner, then you would promote too much oversteer (resulting in a slower speed). Drive it a little faster and you'll spear off the track (resulting in slower speed again [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ).

Now I said "track" deliberately (girls and boys, don't try this at home [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ) because on a track you come across the same corner over and over so you get to find that perfect speed. But to find that perfect speed on a public road is far more difficult, unless it's your favorite section of road and you have done it many times before.

Most people will, rightly, tend to drive their mid-engined cars at speeds below the "slower oversteer" speed, though assuming that it can't go any faster. They might even describe a well set up track car as being a little "taily". At these slower speeds however, the car will behave much like a front engined car, but will probably be a little slower than its front engined counterpart.