i think if you want to really race, get a real race car. But I also believe it is very important to learn any sporting car's, and the driver's limits, and the most safe place to do this is on a race track, with good instruction. Our SPF has many hundreds of track laps, mostly with my son driving. But this way, he has learned threashold braking, axpex's, wet driving, and so much more, some of which does carry over to his street driving, i am sure. Our car has a full race suspension, brakes, and now a full width, taller rollbar. Two Halon systems, and we were Nomex from head to toe. On the track, we run Hoosier race slicks.
I believe well-driven replicas, such as when Dennis Olthoff a few years back did so well in the One Lap challenges, against some pretty stout competiton, both car and driver, speaks well for our primative cars' abilities.
On the street, having learned on the track where my car and my limits are, i stay very far away from them. As for a replica's "handling", here is a pic of our car at Charlotte motor speedway a year ago, before the higher rollbar. Note the very flat corning attitude. Chris driving.
