[street_racer_00]

All the skidpad shows is the maximum amount of lateral acceleration the car is capable of. This test does not include how driveable the car is at the limit, how well it handles with sudden weight shift, etc. Remember the skidpad is a complete circle, and there are no corners at the track that are going to resemble that. I'm not saying that a car that does well on the skidpad isn't going to do well on the track, because it probably is, it's just not the only way to measure a car's handling prowess.