Adrian wrote:
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?

Well, there's lots of factors. The Boxster was in street trim, the
bloke's daily driver. His normal Sprint/Hillclimb car was having work
done on it, I think it was some sort of classic, or maybe a Morgan, but
the bloke had been doing sprints there since time began although not
often in this car.

The MX-5 has induction kit and back box (so ~40bhp up on standard
then?[1]), uprated ARBs and coilovers - lowered 40mm or so and on Toyo
888s I think. It was his first time out in the car after the suspension
mods bar having taken it to be aligned and corner weighted. He only
started competing last year, but there was still a significant power
advantage for the Boxster.

Boxster S has a significant power advantage over an MX-5 but are geared
differently, I don't think there are any other MX-5s in the championship
to compare with, and apart from some stripped out Civic VTis, there
wasn't much else putting in similar times.

Anyway, it still led me to the conclusion that for fastness in this
sport, you don't have to spend Porsche money.

[1] Hehehehe (c:
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Douglas