Down here in the Southeast, the Miata is a proven winner in ITA.

I won the SARRC Championship in '01 and '02 in mine, and Mike VanSteenberg won in '04 in his. The car is great at twisty tracks, and nearly unbeatable somewhere like Roebling Road.

The weakness in ITA for the Miata is tracks with long straights. We can make about the same hp as a good CRX, but they have about the same frontal area but GREATLY reduced drag numbers. The Miata just runs out of steam about the middle of 4th gear. You can draft and stay with the pack, but heaven forbid you try to be the front car, or go it alone!

The Miata handles better than any other ITA contender, and can be flogged senseless without running out of tires and brakes. If I can find a little more power, I hope to break into the top 3 at the ARRC.

We'll see.

Oh, and to answer the question asked earlier, I went with Delrin bushings. Walt Puckett made them for me.