| power would be HP. Let's say you have a chassis that you could put one of two engines in. You could have 2 engines that make 400 hp, but one might have 200 lbs of torque and rev extremely high like a race engine, while the other may have 500 lbs of torque and be a low revver. The theoretical power output of them would be the same- 400 hp. But in the non-theoretical real world that we live in, the one with more torque will pull ahead pretty easily since having loads of torque is more forgiving. If you were able to keep both engines revved at their peak HP rpm all the time, they'd both go equally as fast since they have the same amount of HP. But if you shift at the wrong point or are taken offguard in the wrong gear with the engine with lower torque, it's going to bog, while the high torque engine will easily pull through the gear even if it's not revving high enough.
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