Cool, thanks for the info Rod. Mark must have turned up on his skateboard as he was too young to have a licence!

So it is likely that a car geared for the quarter on a sticky surface like pod and set up for a launch would greatly improve on that plus we now have more modern road tyres, much better ecus and the twin scroll turbos.

Plus the car can now run much better compression ratios. Back then did you have an intercooler of any decent quality as I bet there would have been heat soak on an RS 500 style.