Miata Mailing List: June 1993, Message #24
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   From: Brad.Martinson@Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Martinson - XWindows Janitor)
Subject: Re: stuff
   Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 21:47:57 -0400


> From: 
The track is an older asphalt surface, 9'6" wide, and about
> 6 miles long. The track looks something like this:
> The fastest times were
> turned in by Goeff Evans in a SSC stock miata (~45 seconds). The fastest times
> in the factory stock classes were: 49.26 - novice (my time), 49.06 - intermed-
> iate (Dan Baker), ~48.3x - expert (Rock -someone I didn't really meet).

Wait a second - a six mile track done in 45 seconds!? that works out to, umm,
eight miles per minute, which is, umm, 480 miles per hour, average. WOW!

[ at six-tenths of a mile, it still works out to 48 mph avg, pretty fun.]


Brad