We made it to the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships. Art Director JG Pasterjak is running our project Formula 500 on Tuesday and Wednesday, while Editorial Director David S. Wallens and Andy Hollis are running a new ND-chassis Mazda MX-5 on Thursday and Friday. How does the new car compare to the current one? We’ll all know more Thursday …
Can I come sit in the ND and make racecar noises?
I thought cars had to have been available for > 6 months to be legal for SCCA? Or are you running it in an exhibition class?
I think it's running exhibition.
Yes, SCCA is letting us run it for exhibition. Still, we're running with the rest of the C Street group.
belteshazzar wrote: Can I come sit in the ND and make racecar noises?
You wouldn't be the first.
Can we get some pics of the STR car?
Seems to be really fast, and that's pretty incredible considering how far behind in development it is compared to the S2000.
Can I get in line to sit in it and make racecar noises also?
STR car if this is the right car its currently 8th out of 62 cars amidst a sea of S2000's the next closest Miata is an NC in 15th but they have only run on one course. 
92dxman wrote: Can I get in line to sit in it and make racecar noises also?
Of course. We should have kept track of how many people have sat in the car. It's a lot of people--like, anyone who asked or even looked a tad interested.
If you're on site tomorrow, stop by and check out the cars.
And gearing is going to be the big thing. Andy tried a few things: shift between second and third, leave it in second, and leave it in third.
Taller or shorter tires would probably help. Plus we're doing the sorting before a live audience.
I think the car will be a better CS car than STR car. It seems like it will get less out of the modifications that STR allows than the S2000 and NC do (but it's starting from a better base, so it will still be a good STR car).
The situation in CS will be interesting though. I can see a lot of RX8 and Twins owners abandoning CS for STX, while NC owners will be pretty boned as the NC isn't really a very good STR car and isn't even competitively classed in Street Prepared.
The NC will become the "lost generation" of Miata, as far as SCCA Solo is concerned.
David, did you or Andy have a consensus about how the car will stack up on CS?
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