> Ever watch Spec Miata and wonder how that car out front is so much faster than everybody else? Every race series is full of cheaters. I’m in the racing indus

> Ever watch Spec Miata and wonder how that car out front is so much faster than everybody else? Every race series is full of cheaters. I’m in the racing industry, the rules are well defined and specs will get checked at the end (big races will even do a full engine tear down), the question is how far someone will go to optimize within said rules. Racing Rotax karts, there were certified engine builders that would literally buy pallets of engines, and then mix and match and dyno until they found so called ‘super motors’ with slightly more horsepower. Those never got sold, but instead rented for big races to people with money. The drivers are a big factor too. There are some phenoms out there too… we had one on our team that couldn’t afford it in the long run. I’ve also coached drivers that had money but no skill. Had one that had the money, but had a lot of bad breaks… he’s racing Lamborghini’s professionally now. He won’t make it to INDYCAR or F1, but one driver that he barely lost a championship to is racing F1 now.