Anything can be made to work well providing the design is continually updated. Look at a rear-motor Porsche 911 with the motor hanging out of the back, or any front wheel drive car with the motor hanging out of the front - both are a triumph of engineering over design.
There is no reason that a rear-engine car cannot be made fast, but it is easier to fiddle around with the weight distribution on a model car as the fine tolerances required to engineer a proper suspension for a rear-motor car are just unobtainable at our scale. You can scale any dimensions, but not the Laws of Physics.
As this thread meanders on it becomes more irrelevant by the post. Two-wheel drive under the current rules is simply that - two driven wheels. At the last AGM the Off-Road section couldn't muster enough people to fill a call box, so that gives you some idea how many people actually care about this subject. Drive two wheels and drive your car; it's as simple as that.
Posts from Tartman and Keenbutcrap say all there is to say on the subject; end of...
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