Does RWD understeer

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Petrolsmasher

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Tuesday 18th February 2020
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To the same extent a FWD car understeers?

Does the RWD affect understeer in any way, does it make it worse or better or no different?

Just curious really, i drive a FWD hot hatch and it understeers like a pig on damp roads with good tyres but im guessing most cars do? And in the dry it grips hard but if it understeers i can just lift off and the rear of the car will straighten my line up. Just wondering how a RWD car compares.

Obviously you can purposefully oversteer but thats a bit risky as it can let go a lot easier if your not careful.

Which is faster round a corner hypothetically? A rwd or fwd car?