Students Who Race

[Jake]

Your affordable set of cars are not particularly simple, heavy, and not necessarily slow. It's a completely different recipe that kind of blows for this kind of thing.

You make a good point, for sure. The NB Miata is thankfully still on the cheap/slow/simple train and readily available on the used market. NC Miatas are getting cheaper, but the rollbar implementation on one can be a pain if you want to retain the soft top.

How much did you guys consider "future proofing" the cars you selected for the sake of eventual race classing? I think that is a big thing that keeps the HPDE list of cars to consider very short. It does make sense to buy once, build once over time - but you can HPDE in anything.

For people considering HPDE --> TT or W2W racing, the short list of candidates includes NB Miatas, E46 330i/ci, and Mustangs. No idea what is newer and fits into Honda Challenge that isn't an S2000, but I guess some Civics could work.