Douglas Payne gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

Someone I know got within .25 of a second of a 2001 Boxster S in his
1998 MX-5 at a Sprint I was at a few weekends ago.

This means that Boxsters cost a lot more than MX-5s but are only a
little bit faster. (c:

Or it could just mean that the bloke in the MX-5 was better at sprints
than the bloke in the Boxy?