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The V6 being shorter can be set further back in a rwd car better balance/handling.The V6 does not have the 6300 rmm destructive harmonic of the straight six,but apart from that the straight six in "the only cylinder layout to have perfectly even firing impulses" [source forgotten].Seven main bearings in an inline six helps,but this and big bores makes them a bit long.
The V6 would have the opposite problem -if the stroke was long the motor would grow wide at the top,especially in say a 60 deg.V6.The V6 seems a better racing proposition in theory at least.
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