NOTE: There's a lot of non-corvette information in here as I was instructing and I wrote a lot about the instruction. I'm going to be coming back to this article and seperating out the instructing notes from the C5 specific information and putting that all into a blog post and linking to it in here rather than writing about it all here, so forgive how long this is currently!

Another track weekend, and more success! The Miata continues to hold up pretty good! Aside from needing to change the front brake pads, the car conintues to go very easy on consumables. The Hankook Ventus RS4 tires continue to show minimal wear but deliver exceptional grip as well. The car also served double duty again as I had a student in a bit too much car for the track and we instead had them hop in the NC Miata for their last session and they loved it!

Boh set a personal best going in both directions, each incidentally .01 seconds within each other!

Coming into the track weekend with the MX5 Miata there really wasn't anything new mechanically to speak of. Tires were still fine, brake pads were without issue, everything was happy on the Miata. We just got straight to the point of shredding it, and despite the heat the Miata continues to be a standout car with amazing handling that is an absolute blast to shred around the track!

There's a lot of information floating around pertaining to the NC Miata and common upgrades and repairs, but very little of it is all captured in one spot. It exists either in community information repeated endlessly on facebook and can be hard to discern from the truth, or buried in various forum posts. In an effort to consolidate and vet the information out there, I'm going to start documenting my findings here.

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