[Sandye90m3]

I think for novice drivers or even intermediate drivers, AWD will be faster than RWD. AWD is very easy to drive "fast" because there is so much traction and the only thing that could really happen is understeer which is very predictable compared to oversteer IMO.

Having said that, advanced driver/experts can use RWD to its full potential because first, they are more light and secondly the car is more agile compared to the numbness in a AWD.

For example, in an AWD you can just hammer the throttle around a turn and generically you'll be safe. However in a RWD you need to squeeze that throttle input as linearly as you can, and when perfected it would destroy a AWD.