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If you enter the corner faster the car understeers. I'm comparing this to something like a Ford Focus st170 because with that car I felt like I could enter a corner faster but not being able to accelerate too much through it. Obviously you always have to be slow in fast out but being light at the front is it a characteristic of the MR layout to enter slower than say an ST but get out faster? Or am I just sh*t and I need to improve my technique. 
A front engined car will understeer a bit less because there's more weight and therefore grip on the fronts where an MR will push straight. Conversely, you get more rear grip because your engine is over the rears and helping give you grip/traction there.- the engine acts like a pendulum and when you lose traction it's hard to get it back again unless you know whats coming and react to it quickly.[quote="gavsdavs"]Yes, the weight layout means you have to handle it differently. A front engined car will understeer a bit less because there's more weight and therefore grip on the fronts where an MR will push straight. Conversely, you get more rear grip because your engine is over the rears and helping give you grip/traction there.- the engine acts like a pendulum and when you lose traction it's hard to get it back again unless you know whats coming and react to it quickly.[/quote] Initially I thought an MR layout would be superior in all aspects I.e. Higher entry speed and higher exit speed.mr2_maverick wrote:
Yeah I have found that when the mr2 understeers and if you let go off the accelerator the rear end starts to come around, only way to fix it is to give it more throttle and counter steer.
[quote="gavsdavs"][quote="mr2_maverick"] Initially I thought an MR layout would be superior in all aspects I.e. Higher entry speed and higher exit speed.[/quote] I don't know what I am doing wrong then if you can carry lots of speed into the corners. I try to find the right line.