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Originally Posted by tarheel91
Skid pad numbers are 99% tires, so I wouldn't really worry that much about it. I'd like to see a standardized mini-autocross used in testing. Skid pad is all steady-state cornering, slalom is all transient, neither are really representative of a car's handling around a normal corner. A mini autocross wouldn't change the fact that tires are a major contributor, but a car with a better suspension set up would be able to outperform a lesser car even if they had equal tires. Well, a miniautocross, or you could just make the slalom use turns of varius radii with very short straights (100 feet) in between.
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The limited track tests that the American car rags have is indeed disappointing. A few of them have been pretty decent though. When they have section times they are fairly insightful, probably about as much as an autocross course would be. However, road coarses and autocross do require different strengths from a car.
0-60 is still something a very large percentage of folks in America care about, and of course care too much about (IMHO).