My story was that I got to be in the car when my student ran his fastest laps of the weekend.. He was handicaped with an ITB Volvo that just had no go and was having difficulty learning the track (had never run Summit before) so I borrowed a street Miata from a friend for the instructor ride-arounds. I think his best time during ride arounds on crappy street rubber on Sunday afternoon was probably about 5 seconds better than he did in the Volvo! But we got him on line.. Now the scary thing is that I'm thinking of buying a Miata for a track car.. Wouldn't have borrowed the damned thing if I had known that was gonna happen! They're great little cars.. When you turn the wheel, the car just turns.. You don't have to take up the slack in the steering as you anticipate turn-in like in an RX-7..