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Get Out and Drive; MX-5 SCHOOL IS THE START LINE.(NEWS)
Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH
This is the bottom rung on the Mazda ladder, the easiest place to start and a good place to learn if racing is something you really want to do. It is not cheap, but fender-to-fender competition never is.
We attended the three-day Skip Barber Mazdaspeed MX-5 racing school at Sebring Interna-tional Raceway in Florida and now await a call from Newman-Haas or Hendrick Motor-sports. (Is this phone on? Am I getting a signal?)
The school uses Mazda MX-5 Miatassome five-speeds, some six-speedsoutfitted like the Barber Mazdaspeed Chal-lenge cars that run in regional races. In fact, they are the same cars. Barber spends about $10,000 modifying them with a full cage, a racing seat and five-point harness, proper gauges, brakes, tires, Koni shocks, a header and a Supertrapp muffler used for equalizing the speed of the cars. Add or subtract a plate in the muffler, and horsepower goes up or down by two or three.
Our class was led by the legendary Terry Earwood, Barber's head instructor in the Southern region, the winningest driver in the Firestone Firehawk Endurance ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Get Out and Drive; MX-5 SCHOOL IS THE START LINE.(NEWS)