That’s how my school was to an extent, 12 people doing it as their Senior Project, most had zero knowledge of vehicle design and with 100% turnover every year knowledge was never passed down, budget of $10k (of which $2k came out for competition, so really $8k to build the car), and lots of stupid requirements for the…

I agree with that. Most of my posting here related to the Miata is getting people riled up and blindly defending the Miata as if it’s part of a cult, some of the answers are a bit amusing.

From a vehicle dynamics point of view, no?

I was being conservative with the 2G comment, no way a Miata corners as hard as a kart.

What school was that?

There is a noise requirement, it used to be 110 dBA but for this year changed to 100 dBC, meaning the noise requirement has become much tighter than in the past.

That is the 2012 car I believe? Looks like 13s in back and 10s in front.

The GFR guys I talked to at Michigan 2013 were pretty cool, one of the most professional teams in the paddock.

Their car last year was nuts, but have you seem this year’s car? I’d argue it’s even more wild with the side airfoils, don’t know if they’re running a diffuser or not.

Um, no. Somewhere on my computer is data logged from a friend’s dad’s Miata on R-compounds, peak lat-G was around 1.4G.

University of Maryland College Park, Terps Racing. They’re one of the school believed to be at the forefront of aerodynamic development in Formula SAE, and some would say they’re responsible for the rulebook being rewritten to tighten down aerodynamic regulations.

Pretty sure that record wasn’t broken because people stopped doing speed records there when J.G. Parry-Thomas died back in 1927.

Show me a Miata that corners at over 2Gs and I’ll believe that answer.

So, you’re asking what cars can pull 2.5G in the corners?

The difference is, Project Cars doesn’t have 20+ versions of the same car (looking at you, Mazda MX-5/Miata in Gran Turismo.....) to boost its car count numbers.

Slow news day when an article written two days prior gets shared to the FP?

Ah, my appologies, it clearly says sweeper, I can’t read.

No, the family left a little while before that.

Not necessarily, the most recent Top Gear format was tweaked to fit Richard, Jeremy, and James. By no means throw away everything about what already exists, just different hosts have different styles.

Top Gear shouldn’t be brought back. Start a new show that’s different and more in the style of the new hosts, not the style of three guys who used to host a show.