Originally Posted by
Hawk6
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Shouldn't there be more RC cars that are laid out similar to full size race cars?
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Why should it?
Regardless.
Grip doesn't work in your favour, just like it doesn't in most of the situations you mentioned.
You don't have enough grip at the front and you don't have enough grip at the back, that's why you need both.
If AWD did not come with a serious weight penalty in real life scale, I am sure you'd see most of those cars you mention turning to AWD. In fact real cars which are more powerful and faster than the racing categories you mentioned (think supercars), actually use AWD. Why do you think that is?
But daft as it sounds there is a class like that, and it is
big. Just not where you are, otherwise you would have known:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32PskkNB-Uk&t=219s