We've had some good times at 24 Hours of LeMons and ChumpCar events in our 1992 Mazda Miata, but we've always wondered: How would this little car stack up against better prepared club racers? To find out, we stuck our budget racer on the trailer and shoved off for NASA Florida's Sebring event.
Just before the first practice …
I thought a hardtop was required for Spec Miata?
Indeed it is. We were driving in PTE, but since we were the only ones in our class, they let us grid up at the back of the Spec Miata field.
The hardtop is not required with SCCA. Suprised to learn it is with NASA.
What kind of lap times?
I stand corrected. I just looked up the rules and they do not require a hardtop. I guess I've just never ever seen one without it.
We were running pretty slow. Best lap time was a 2:51.1. The car could have gone faster. It was also my first time around Sebring.
In testing, we found the hardtop is worth 7mph at the end of the Ulman straight.
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