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Originally Posted by RudeTony

Your points are sort of valid but I will put to you this scenario and you will understand that it's the actual weight that matters - where you put it is how the car reacts but it's the actual weight makes the difference. Of course where we put the weight is important but remember that sometimes we are sort of limited and rely on the companies you mentioned to work with top drivers and manufacture parts that are in the rigt places.

You have a bump in a middle of a straight !!!
Your car is travelling at 35mph with no weight, in fact it's well under weight just for this experiment.....
It will hit that bump and fly in the air because it's light. It just won't matter how your suspension, oils or anything else is set up - it will fly because it's too light.....
Now same scenario but with a real real heavy car.
The heavy car just won't fly, it's too heavy, it will go over the bump with no issue.
That is why weight works.

Saying all that, like Matt stated, the top drivers will try and run the cars as light as possible, we all try to, but weight has to be added as these cars are off road cars and they jump, they bump and so on. If it was touring cars you points would be so much more valid but in off road the weight is actually a must.

Hope this has helped a little more for you

Very well put Tony!!!

I think I finally got it!