[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the November 2012 issue of Grassroots Motorsports.]
When I started my pro career in the Touring Car class of the Pirelli World Challenge (then known as Speed World Challenge), I, like many drivers before me, had visions of big, powerful GT cars dancing through my head—big, powerful, rear-wheel drive GT cars to be precise. My thoughts were that all things being equal, a rear-wheel drive car will totally run circles around a front-wheel drive one, and of course, I wanted to be in the faster cars. Well, as Peter Cunningham proved more than a few times this year running his front-wheel drive Acura head-to-head with the rear-wheel drive Mustangs and Camaros in the WC GTS class, well-set up, well-driven front-wheel drive cars can be more than competitive with their rear-wheel drive counterparts.
Photography Credit: Rupert Berrington
Part of the reason I still enjoy racing front-wheel drive cars is that…
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