Talk:Championship/Honda Civic Type R/@comment-116.110.14.230-20171203081011/@comment-31458611-20171203232053

When a statement is opened with "since this is", it implies that the audience takes for granted that this indeed... is. But I don't think that's the case here.

See, "nitro-focus" is not a simple "yes it is" or "no it's not" condition; actually, it's more of a nuanced gradation, especially when taking nitro efficiency into account (which I won't). The total speed of this Civic is 80% top speed / 20% nitro. Compare this to one posterchild of nitro-biased cars, the (same C class) Torq with its 70/30 split. They must behave differently on track, wouldn't you agree?

Not to mention class D: Porsche 959 (69/31), Dezir (67/33) and the extreme case of the Ford F=150 (63/37). Conversely, I can literally say that my AMG GT3 is a mildly nitro-reliant car (84/16), because when double-boosted at TLEs on nitro-demanding tracks like Tokyo and Barcelona I generally get better times with my Lambo Estoque, even though the latter is 5.2 km/h slower. Mind you, that's with nitro; without, it goes 25.3 km/h faster.

PS: 0505-5050 is a bad idea for a nitro-biased car. ;-)