Mark, we work very hard to accomplish two things at once: to make the very fastest car out there easy for the average club racer to drive. Check the Fan Mail on our website and you'll see what I mean. Most drivers report the X - 6 is easier to drive and easier to drive fast -- two different things.
The physics of it is that any mid-motor car is better over bumps and in the air than a rear-motor. That's the "pendulum effect," and it works in corners too. With a rear motor car you are waiting and watching for the back end to come around. One instant you've got plenty of traction and the next instant the front and back ends swap places. Getting the weight in front of the rear wheels means the car will be faster before it loses traction and it will loose traction in a slower, more controllable way.
In the U.S. we have dirt oval racing, and some tracks have banned the X - 6 -- it's just too fast because it's so controllable sliding sideways through sweping turns. You won't drive that way on carpet or astro, but the physics remains the same.
Rear motor cars were developed a long time ago in southern California where they were racing on sand and needed something -- anything! -- to make the car go forward. They threw away all the principles of physics to make that happen. You don't need that on astro.
Hope this helps.
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