| In the engines we're talking about, we're only talking a difference between the power peaking at 4000 rpm or peaking at 9000 rpm. Look at the S2000. It has just as much HP as a Buick Grand National, and is much, much lighter. Yet the GN's consistently beat S2000's at the strip. Yes, theoretically HP *should* be the end all of engine measurements. But the results speak for themselves. A car with loads of torque making 500 hp will destroy a low torque car making the same power on the dragstrip. It's one thing to try to understand the math behind a race, but it's another thing entirely to get caught up in the numbers and lose sight of what really happens. I'd like to think that a high HP/low torque engine would do just as well at the track as a low revving big block. But the reality is that big blocks and old iron dominate.
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