Looking on one of the old forums i use to haunt and have just stumbled into a 'race' (so to speak) heated debate about mx5s out handling s2000 on track and being difficult to drive ???

Personally i love the stance of the s2000 and enjoy the 'over step the mark, and ill kill you' handling but my question is will i be out done by an mx5 on track ..... i doubt it but we never know

 

If the mx5 is driven better and there aren't too many long straights, it'll go quicker than a S.

 

even around the corners ??? i honestly thought that it would out do the mx

 

Who cares ?

 

No chance my MX5 handled beautifully and was really predicatble, but there is no way my MX5 would have cornered as well as the S2000.

 

so will a Morris Minor

 

Here's some footage of me and an MX-5 round Donington from Saturday. I let the MX-5 past me as he was a tiny bit quicker round the track, although I was backing off on the straights as I was catching him pretty easily.

However, the MX-5 in question was completely stripped for racing and had a more experienced driver (nice chap by the way).

I suspect that some of the fastest S2000s would have been quicker than him, and had it been a standard MX-5, then I would have been quicker.

See from about 2:15 here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NemxtP-Vts

 

ill have to watch that when i get home .. damn work computers wont allow youtube

 

Nice vid, out of interest did you use a screen mounted camera?

That MX5 is in the same vein as PJL's S2000, not really comparable.

When I had my MX5 it did genuinely inspire confidence to push on more than the S2000 does, I always felt that the MX5 would break away a lot earlier but remain very controllable compared to the S2000.

 

Nice Vid