Maybe NA prices will calm down a little now (One can hope, can't they?).
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Another place to race a Miata? Sure, why not?
Starting January 1, 2024, the SCCA will recognize Mazda Spec MX-5 as an SCCA Road Racing Runoffs class.
This means the class, which currently uses the NC-chassis Miata, will be welcome at all SCCA U.S. Majors Tour and Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour weekends as well as the season-ending National Championship Runoffs.
Full class rules are to come soon but, according to SCCA CRB Chairman John LaRue, it should “closely mirror the current specifications laid out for the Spec MX-5 Challenge Series.”
Maybe NA prices will calm down a little now (One can hope, can't they?).
In reply to racerfink :
NA Miatas are now routinely show up at vintage races so I'm thinking prices won't be calming down..........sadly. I loved my NA Miata another one would be fun.
Racers aren't driving the price of NA Miatas. That's the collector market. Blame the folks at Classic Motorsports, not Grassroots Motorsports :)
This is good. It gives somewhere else for "Spec NC" cars to go. At some point, we'll probably also see the MX5 Global Cup (aka "Spec ND") get recognized as well.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Generally I think it's a good thing......it's a well supported class so it makes sense. In fact it would be silly not to do this.
With that said this is going to piss of several classes monumentally because SCCA keeps saying they have no room at the RunOffs as justification for wanting/threatening to drop some of the lower participation classes form the RunOffs.
Keith Tanner said:Blame the folks at Classic Motorsports, not Grassroots Motorsports :)
NA Miata prices will remain high because they are good cars and people want to own them.
They added this class to the 2023 VIR runoffs kind of at the last minute. Its an exhibition class that skipped the normal runoffs qualifying so ruffled a few feathers. Sure, we'll watch it but it seems like it skipped the whole new class regional progression & jumped right to the runoffs.
Woody (Forum Supportum) said:NA Miata prices will remain high because they are good cars and people want to own them.
And because the supply of good ones is dwindling. It's what's turned my early production car from a car that was ratty to a car that was unremarkable to a car that gets people's interest when they see it. It's not the car that changed.
I think NA Miata values are going up because there are just less of the nice ones available (between being turned into race cars, drift cars, stance cars, or rusted away) and they're old enough to hit classic car status. This happens with just about every car that's remotely interesting, I feel.
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