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Don't be afraid of FWD cars for road course use- especially 4 cylinder ones. While FWD cars have a natural tendency toward understeer, a slight lift followed by a little steering correction and careful throttle input will bring you back on line as quick or quicker than a RWD car that oversteers. Most of the 4 cyl. FWD generally lack enough power to have much of an understeer problem coming off of corners. Generally, the understeer problem shows up when corner entry is too hot and the throttle pickup is too early and too heavy. Lots of FWD cars are great road race cars. Look at the old SCCA Neon Challenge series. Those cars ran some fearsome times for low HP cars. The trick to FWD is smoothness and maintaining your momentum.
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