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Weird, I can't reply to the thread I started but can on this.
Oh well. It seems that people whinge (sneer?) when talking about races they can and do have - with each other, on the roads - and love to talk about racing in the abstract, such as the above.
The majority of people I've raced on the track do well because they are fit, not necessarily because they are strong. Only after a certain point (at the very top end of the 'B Cats' at HH, for example) does pure strength start to really play a part.