It's not the first FWD to put impressive times on the Ring. It's currently the fastest but the M2 get's also beaten by Leon Cupra, Golf GTI Clubsport S, previous Type-R and maybe even by Megane RS 275. FWD is not a disadvantage on a dry Ring track, actually FWD are so well sorted these days in terms of getting power to the tarmac, weight distribution, some aero, that at any track at around 300 hp power the fwd it's the fastest. On the fun side of things there is nothing they can do
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I drove a Type-R at the track, first ride in that car for 3-4 laps gave me work for the whole day
. I had to lap it over and over to beat the time of the Civic in my mk5 Golf GTI Edition 30 Revo remaped to 308hp and 446Nm.
I'm not very proud with the driving but I'm pasting the urls any way
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