[ALMACK]

Before the ecomony took a dive a few years ago, I was the slower car in bracket racing at our local track 85 % of the time. (I keep records and stats)
I got alot of seat time looking over my shoulder and judging rate-of-gain as well as time-n-distance.

My Pure Stocker is even slower than my bracket car (by about .4 sec.)

I say that an experienced driver in a slow machine has the same chance of winning rounds as a fast car.

However, as stated above, it does seem that weather changes effect a slower car more.