Speed costs money no matter what. I agree with where you are coming from to that point, but I don't feel many Gridlife attendees are going to go to the lengths that competitive spec Miata racers do to be competitive. Not only is that level of nit-picking a car time consuming, but its expensive for very small incremental performance benefit. Finding a way to separate the modest $10-15k budget builds that many people have from the wilder $30k+ builds is the trick and the current rule set doesn't do a good job of separating them. Emilio's recommendation on classing does a better job of differentiating between the mild and wild budgets IMO, and Ryan more elegantly stated the point I was making. Poscat's all around for those statements.

BUMP

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5545ab1d97.jpg

There is no min weight.
You can delete ALL of the interior, dash included.
You can chop off 2/3rds of the unibody, outside the shock towers.


however...

You must use a glass windshield.

What. The. F&*k.

Wait really? I will laugh if all the miata's just stick to the regular classing.

I think for RM2 a car like Dan's(pre-built engine) on RC1s is the ticket.

But with no hard checks on power, NCs and NDs could easily dominate the class

Nvm

The rules may be a dumpster fire, but at least Hyper is on the header of the page :party:

I have full intentions of sticking to regular classing if I make a local Gridlife event this year. I have no shame in losing to cars that over power me or drivers that are more experienced. My cars powertrain is bone stock down to the air filter. Just gives more motivation to develop the car and catch them in the future. In the event that I do beat some drivers, the victorious underdog feeling makes it all worth it.

eg: you don't see Ryan complaining that Hypermiata was down factors of magnitude of power against his competitors at COTA. Much more exciting to compete with a common rulebook against other makes and models and win or lose like men. I don't see the purpose of RM classing as written other than handing out more participation trophies specifically to the Miata crowd. Whats next? S2000 specific classing? Civic specific classing? No... Stahhpppp..

My thoughts exactly. Have a cat.

Anyone going to be at Mid O this weekend? Be nice to put a face to the internet persona. I'll be in the matte black Miata tooling around in intermediate HPDE.

I'll be there in my trusty trackday NC1 with my wife in her NB1, Instructing only though - no racecars are ready yet unfortunately
I'll also have some MiataHubs and a small booth setup with plenty of stickerssss!

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c1e3054c3a.jpg

I'll be by for the stickers!

We'll be there in a red miata, black hardtop with some stripes getting trained in the gltc sessions...