Just to shed a little light...or open the can of worms...did anyone other than me notice how fast the ITA, 1.8, Miata ran in ITA? I thought they were supposed to do only well on handling courses, but not horsepower tracks. Find me one that takes more horsepower than Daytona, and I'll buy that arguement...maybe. True, he finished second, but that was due largely to pit work in the winner's pit.
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Well we all know that car is as good as an example is going to get - ever. Driven the way it should be and prepped to the Nth. It would be the car to look at.

Care to post the lap times? How did it stack up against cars that run hot at the ARRC?