2021 Mazda MX-5 Cup At Daytona International Speedway

[@purwantiallan5089]

Nice to see MX5 Cup finally underway.

[@shackvillneuve3279]

Ahhhhhhh, Im here just after the Sebring 12h cuz I needed more racing. These Mazda... Ive just discovered this series of MX-5 and oh god I love it! Close racing is what I love and these bad bois are just doing this! By the way, love the fact that IMSA is publishing the replays if the race👌

[@R.a.E.]

I'm impressed 👍👍👍

[@asigmon69]

Watching Miata races are always so awesome

[@KevBygrave]

Great action! Lets hope we can have Jeremy Shaw commentating at Sebring, I love his knowledge and his passion for the sport.

[@Scott_Bodabop]

Always happy to hear that announcer !

[@CARLOS62B]

Great to see the pocket rockets in action.

[@Eden_24_]

4:00 Race Start

[@Dethmeister]

18:45 A sequential gearbox with auto-blip? Why? They should keep it pure for this little support series.

[@derekimler9244]

U guys should get the Porsche Carrera cup on Daytona I’ll bet those guys would put on a epic show

[@jaybeesantos7714]

4:03 race start

[@RyanAlba]

You the real MVP

[@lordracer7743]

Fantastic Stuff

[@lillepunk]

Will race 1 be made available? Wouldn't mind watching that race again!

[@imsaofficial]

No it will not.

[@lillepunk]

@@imsaofficial That's a real shame. Some of the best racing I've ever seen.

[@dowroa]

@IMSA Official - What happened to the broadcast of Race 1?

[@EdgySwordfish]

They didnt get contract rights for race 1 it seems

[@SpartanRacing1989]

What are the specs of cars and how much does it cost to run?

[@brittgardner2923]

They cost about fifty thousand US dollars, if I recall, and a simplified version of the specs are here: www.mx-5cup.com/about/mx5-car-info Now, as for what it costs overall to run? By the time you buy a truck and trailer, fuel and maintenance for those, fuel for the car, parts, repairs, etc., I wouldn't be shocked if it cost yet another 50K a year to run. It's an IMSA support series, and it was an IndyCar support series before that. It's big league racing, and that's never cheap.

[@SpartanRacing1989]

@@brittgardner2923 I appreciate it. I'll make a dream reality eventually. Even if I'm like 60 to 70 years old and only get to one race. Lol

[@brittgardner2923]

@@SpartanRacing1989 Hope you get a chance to make it happen. I'd love to have one of the cup cars too. Would love to race it even, but it's way out of my price range right now. Planning to rebuild my current ND Miata daily driver into a race car eventually to do some amateur level stuff, but MX-5 Cup is serious business, even if it's at the lower end of it. Nonetheless, motorsport is about the only thing that I get really excited for these days.

[@SpartanRacing1989]

@@brittgardner2923 I appreciate it. Unfortunately I am never going to be able to do something like this. Right now I a sacrificing my daily driven 09 Scion tC and moding it for the drag strip. Found this is by far the cheapest form of racing. I'd rather circuit race but I will take what I can get. I'm 31 and not getting any younger. One day though even if I am freakin 60 or even 70 years old. I will get in a circuit racing series. Its been a dream sense I was 5.

[@alsoleak7196]

@Super Spartan They say it at 19:55

[@xxoptic__nutxx6877]

Tough job commentating solo

[@TheJGJR9]

a lot of SR down if this was gt sport😂

[@x-90]

You went .000001 cm off the track. 4 second penalty

[@agenericaccount3935]

I can hear Cleeter shouting "Stay off the grass"

[@snafuequals]

Hell yeah, brother

[@archvizwiz]

Did you by chance spend some time in So Cal? I haven't heard that statement in years! All the time as a kid. I always wondered why the grew grass. Just to look at! lmbo

[@JamesLCoxe]

No manual transmissions?! Man that’s crap

[@mjl1966y]

Paddles on an MX-5? nooooo...

[@FloridaManRacer]

Hold the hell up @IMSA. Let me get these numbers straight Hindhaugh just gave out in this broadcast himself. You're telling me it costs EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS for an OEM Manufacturer based street legal $26,500 MSRP MX-5 Miata to have 250 racing parts bolted on to it to convert it to racing?! And 227 suckers bought into that crap?! Racing might be an expensive hobby, but at this level, IT'S JUST A HOBBY. That's absolutely ridiculous cost at this low level of the sport and then we sit here and wonder what the barriers to entry are in racing....Smack my damn head. I can buy a junker dodge neon, weld a cage, racing seat, and install a fuel safety cell and go race at a local dirt track for about $4,500... And I bet it pays about the same amount to win both of those races too...

[@GreshamWagner]

$250K to the champion, $85K to 2nd, $50K to third, and so on down to 10th. $80K to rookie of the year, and $4K per event to hard chargers.

[@FloridaManRacer]

@@GreshamWagner I'll give credit where credits due, that's an excellent payout... It's still a 4 banger shitbox from japan. It ain't worth $85,000 dollars no matter what anyone puts in that thing short of 30 pure gold bars...

[@tomatodamashi]

Race 1 ending was exciting, now watching this I find this all rather boring. Bump draft until the last possible moment and then pass. There is no jockeying for position, no back and forth, no real strategy, and NOTHING the first place person can do when the trigger is pulled. I won't be watching this series again, unfortunately.

[@GreshamWagner]

Well fortunately, Daytona is a bit of an outlier in terms of just how powerful the drafting is. While I did my best in race 2 to keep the pace up and break us away from the rest of the field, it let to it being a bit sterile in the top 3. There was no benefit to us battling in this case. Obviously when we go to a track like St. Pete, for example, the type of race you’ll see will be different from the roval.

[@agenericaccount3935]

K

[@SpartanRacing1989]

@@GreshamWagner what is the class rules and how much does it cost to run in this race?

[@soundbelch1600]

That is unfortunate because you're going to miss out on a lot of good racing.

[@tomatodamashi]

@@GreshamWagner If that's the case, then I guess I'll give it another shot. I'll just skip the races at Daytona.