Mazda MX-5 Cup is perhaps the perfect racing sequence on the planet. No, the automobiles aren’t the quickest or most unique, however the racing is nearer and extra thrilling than something you will see from top-level motorsports like F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, or IMSA. Footage from the first-ever MX-5 Cup occasion again in 2006 exhibits Miata racing has all the time been this good, proper from the beginning.
This video, printed by Marshall Pruett on Saturday, was taken from contained in the cabin of an NC-generation MX-5 Cup automobile pushed by Larry Webster on the then-called Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Webster, who on the time wrote for Automobile and Driver, began tenth, however shortly labored his approach as much as fifth because of automobiles forward spinning out or crashing. After a full-course yellow, he managed to move the automobile forward for fourth, earlier than later giving up that very same spot down the corkscrew. Webster would go on to complete fourth general.
There is not any scarcity of motion within the 12-minute clip, with extra shut calls, nose-to-tail drafting, slides, mud clouds, and rev-limiter bouncing than we will preserve observe of. There is not a lot pace going down, however that is what makes the MX-5 Cup so fantastic. And with the automobiles mechanically equivalent, it is all right down to the drivers to search out time. That makes for some actually shut, extremely entertaining battles.
This primary MX-5 Cup race wasn’t a fluke, in fact. Even 17 years later, the sequence continues to ship wonderful wheel-to-wheel pleasure race after race, every full of extra motion than the following. Should you actually get pleasure from watching highway racing, it is a must-see sequence.
