Best chassis for motorsport use

[Blakeo]

Hi guys, taking into account: bang for buck, tuning potential,availability, aftermarket support. 

Are R/S chassis still competitive in motorsport, is there a reason why they seem to be more commonly used than say a R35 GTR in WTAC? 

[GTSBoy]

Your question really depends on what you mean by "motorsport". Whether they are competitive or not will depend entirely on the ruleset. WTAC has some pretty no-holds-barred rules where lightness and simplicity can be a benefit. The R35 is nether of those things.

Pick another competition with some other ruleset, and R35 will smash the others. Pick another, and something else will do it.

[Blakeo]

1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

Your question really depends on what you mean by "motorsport". Whether they are competitive or not will depend entirely on the ruleset. WTAC has some pretty no-holds-barred rules where lightness and simplicity can be a benefit. The R35 is nether of those things.

Pick another competition with some other ruleset, and R35 will smash the others. Pick another, and something else will do it.

So essentially the s/r chassis is better than anything else, unless they make rules against them 😎

Edited 10 hours ago by Blakeo

[Kinkstaah]

No?

The WTAC rules heavily favour certain JDM manufacturers. Plus, in the world of time attack, these are also the platforms that guys 20 years ago built and built experience from, now that they have hundreds and thousands of dollars of sponsorships and junk behind them and have a ton of R&D.

From another continent we may see things like Lotus Elise/Exige/Porsche GTX and the Corvette platform smash things. The C6 at WTAC had a 160KG weight penalty. Have a look at Gridlife USA where they have a Ford GT absolutely massacring everything.
 

If you look at Clubsprint (which is still a sponsored class) - but the most "bang for buck", not many Nissans there at all. In a field of 39, there was a 350Z in 17th and a R32 GTR in 22nd.

[r32-25t]

The best Motorsport chassis would have to be pretty much any Porsche 911 

[Murray_Calavera]

9 hours ago, Blakeo said:

So essentially the s/r chassis is better than anything else, unless they make rules against them

How to tell me you haven't raced a S or R chassis without telling me you haven't raced a S or R chassis.