Originally Posted by T-BirdJunkie

For somebody on ThunderbirdJunkie's level, the weight that far forward makes the car more reactive on initial steering, but actually lengthens the polar moment of inertia (do some reading) making it a little lazy in transient maneuvers (it steers awesome initially, but it's a bit oafish in switchbacks and chicanes)...

The other side of it, perhaps ThunderbirdJunkie simply doesn't drive the same as Theilke does, and has since started changing his setup accordingly...