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Originally Posted by KA
As you say, Bemani did a pretty good job considering they were running without factory support, and had a car which was both overweight and underpowered compared to their main 'big' class opposition, the RS500 (Even at 340bhp, the Supra would have been a good 100+bhp down on a competitive Sierra!) Thinking back to the couple of times I saw them, they certainly seemed to be in exactly the kind of position you describe in the races- behind the factory-backed Schnitzer & Bigazzi M3s, but usually ahead of most of the privateer ones...
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100% agree ,just to add on the weight - I have a many reasons to believe that Bemani Supras were over 1100KG ,IIRC in "Auto Illustrate"'s article about the car a figure as high as 1200KG was mentioned! This is the FIA regulation minimum for 2.0 Turbo (RS500)!!