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Right, I laugh at your perception that "nothing giving" is an option... If nothing gives, you are going too slow.
*snort*

Our ProSolo car - an AWD talon - would do low 1.6 second 60' times on unprepared concrete. 0-60 times in 3.2-3.4 seconds. And it could got WOT without wheelspin pretty much at will - this with 350 HP and nearly 400 ft-lb of torque.

It took a lot, and I do mean a LOT of work to get it that way. Working out the interaction between three differentials was quite the challenge. But it got us to the point where the driver could stop on the gas and the only thing that happened was the car accelerated.

That car won a metric assload of races. It was many things, but "slow" was not one of them.

Oh, and the clutch in that car lasted 7 seasons and as far as I know is still in the car. Notwithstanding 5500 rpm stutterbox clutchdrop launches (a minimum of 12 per event, and 16 was the average) the car was very kind to clutches. Centre diffs, not so much.

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