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Fun time at Mid Ohio Super Tour	Wednesday, May 20, 2026
This was the first event of the year after working on the car over winter. We welded cracks in the right engine motor mount, and in the subframe. We also got the new JPM cams reground so they are legal and installed them in the Edwin engine. That was a big process due to relieving the pistons and having to get new longer valves, then having to shorten a couple valves. We also installed a new 6 puck clutch disc. We also had to modify the head gasket to match the legal compression ratio of 11:1. I also fabricated new connector pigtails for the injectors and coils. We took the car to SloMo for a dyno tune the week before the race and it did well, then we completed a setup on the car on the Sunday before. We had to install a 52-pound lead weight that was given to us by SCCA. We also decided to install the new brake master cylinder because the brakes were acting weird at the Runoffs. I had Bob Lawrence help me with that during the week. On Wednesday night before the race, we loaded everything up so we could pull out early Friday morning to make it to the track for our first qualifying at 10:30 am. That allowed us to stay home Thursday night to go to kids’ baseball games. Of course, during all this I had to un-winterize the Discovery RV and do checks on the inTech trailer. That all went very well considering it is normally a pain. I was glad I filled the RV with fuel before putting it away in fall since the price of diesel was over $6/gal. Friday, we arrived at the track, got registered, unloaded, through tech, and set up paddock up on the hill where we always used to park with the IT cars. The event had over 250 cars entered so it was crowded. We took the car out for the first qualifying session at 10:30am and it ran well. Kevin turned in a 1:39.801 which put him in 4th in FP (of 12 cars entered), and 6th overall – about what we expected with the added weight. The lead Miata and the Lotus both ran below the track record, 2.5 seconds faster than us, which was set over 30 years ago during a Runoffs race. Kevin brought it in early because the car was making some weird sounds on right hand turns which he thought were coming from the front left corner. After checking everything in the front we found nothing except a slightly loose brake cooling duct bracket. Kevin kept looking and found the left rear wheel bearing seemed a bit chunky. When we pulled it off the balls fell out of the bearing, and one was split in half. I installed the new Moog spare hub with long ARP studs installed and welded in place, and we were ready for the next qualifying Saturday morning at 8am. Saturday morning, we went out for our second qualifying session and it ran well again. He finished 3rd in FP and 5th overall with a 1:40.120. Our Saturday race was supposed to be at 2:10 but there was tons of rain and lightning after our early qualifying session so we didn’t go out for our race until about 3:30, and it was shortened to 15 minutes, 9 laps. The good news was the delay allowed Carrie and the kids to finish Coras last soccer game and drive to the track in time for the race. The track still had some wet spots, but the car ran well and Kevin managed to finish 2nd in FP way behind the leader due to being held up by Brakke in his EP car. Cora and Walter had games that evening, but Ed did not, so he stayed with us overnight. He was a great help working on the car. Sunday morning, we watched the first race which was STL, STU, T3 and T4. After that we did a quick inspection of the car as we usually do before a race. Kevin saw a slight misalignment of a couple bolts that held on the left rear upper control arm. After further examination he found the mount bar between those two bolts was broken inside the spherical bearing and moving slightly. I immediately thought we were done for the day because we had never had a spare one of those parts, and we could not risk running on it in its current condition. Kevin quickly jumped on the Yamaha cart and went to talk with the other integra owners who had just finished their race. To our surprise he found a guy who had a spare and it was the correct part. Kevin bolted it onto our car, and we were ready to race. While we were waiting for our fans to arrive, we watched the ground pounder race (GT1, GT2, GTX, T1, and T2). We had a great contingent of fans for the race. Carrie, Walter, and Cora returned. Andy, Sara, Drew, Nolan, and Bryn arrived. And Sheryl and Diane also showed up. We grabbed a quick lunch and took the car down to grid and started 4th in class and 6th overall. The race was much like the last one. Kevin stayed close to the leaders but could not get near enough to even think about a pass, and Brakke in his EP car held up the FP cars in all the corners. The car ran very well for all 20 race laps. It has been some time since we ran that long trouble free. We were glad to have help loading the trailer from all the fans and especially from the strong grandkids Drew and Nolan. We were anxious to see how much the restrictors and added weight would slow us down. We were even more anxious to see how much the Miatas would speed up, thanks to added valve lift and added compression ratio given to them. For some reason the SCCA board felt they needed to not only slow us down, but speed them up, even though the Miatas have claimed 17 of the 30 Runoffs podium spots in the last 10 years, and 4 of the 6 in the last two years. Well, that’s how a democracy works. Once the majority figures out they can vote themselves free stuff, they do.
SCCA Road Racing Competition Committee Wisdom	Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Why does anyone run in a national class of SCCA?? If you ask racers who do, you will get mostly a common answer – “To compete in, and win, the Runoffs, so you can call yourself a National Champion.” If you just want to race for fun, there are a multitude of places to race a whole lot easier and a whole, whole lot cheaper. Here are the actual results from the last 10 years of the FP Runoffs Race. You can check these in the SCCA archives. TRACK Mid O Indy Sonoma VIR RdAm Indy VIR VIR RdAm RdAm FINISH 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 1ST Lotus Miata Midget Miata Lotus Civic Miata Integra Miata Honda* 4 Miata, 2 Lotus, 2 Honda, 1 Midget, 1 Integra 2ND Miata Miata Volvo Miata Miata Integra Integra Civic Integra Miata 5 Miata, 3 Integra, 1 Honda, 1 Volvo 3RD Miata Miata Miata Miata Miata Integra Miata Integra Miata Miata 8 Miata, 2 Integra 17 Miata, 6 Integra, 7 others *The starred winner in 2025 is an outlier. That car was a GTL car that was moved into FP with the wrong specifications. Even the driver told me he thought it was classified wrong. If that car was not there, the top 7 finishers would have been Miata. By the way, I collected the data for the last 16 years. It didn’t significantly change the percentages, so I thought the last 10 years is more current and easier to digest. Okay, anyone looking at this data would probably see an issue. You might say, “where are the MGs, the Triumphs, the VWs, the Toyotas, etc.”, and you might want to make some adjustments. BUT, some people might say, “The finishing position doesn’t tell the whole story. Another car could be running the fastest lap and just not finishing” – very true. Let’s look at the fastest laps in all those years. FASTEST LAP 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 1ST Lotus Miata Midget Miata Integra Civic Miata Civic Integra Honda* 3 Miata, 3 Honda, 2 Integra, 1 Midget, 1 Lotus 2ND Lotus Miata Volvo Miata Lotus Miata Miata Miata Miata Integra 6 Miata, 2 Lotus, 1 Integra, 1 Volvo 3RD Miata Miata Miata Miata Miata Integra Miata Miata Miata Integra 8 Miata, 2 Integra 17 Miata, 5 Integras, 8 others This data seems to agree with the finishing position data. It suggests the very least you would do is slow down the Miatas and speed up the rest, with the exception of the Integras, who you might leave alone. Some other people might say, “Different cars run differently at different tracks. The Runoff tracks are mostly large tracks that favor the “faster” cars, not the “turning” cars. That is true. Arguably, all of those ten tracks favor the “faster on the straights” cars with the possible exception of Mid Ohio and Sonoma. So generally speaking, the Integras should have an advantage at most of the Runoffs venues if the cars are all classified correctly. The Miatas would have the advantage at the other “handling” tracks, at the qualifying races. So, did the Road Racing Competition Committee decide to slow down the Miatas, leave the Integras along, and speed up the rest?? No. They decided, and I do mean THEY, because they instructed the Road Racing Advisory Board who are responsible for competition fairness, to do this: *Slow down the Integras by giving them ?75? pounds additional weight, and restrict their throttle bodies from 61mm to 51mm, a 30.1% *cross sectional area reduction. AND *Give the Miatas 50 thousandths additional valve lift, and increase their compression ratio from 10.5/1 to 11.0/1 I could give you my estimates of how much these changes added to, or took away from those two marques, and you probably wouldn’t agree with them. But, you have to agree these are not trivial changes. Well, how did it work? I only have one data point, but it is significant because it shows an Integra and a Miata racing together last weekend at Mid Ohio, just like those same two have been doing for the last 17 years. The Integra was running as well as it ever has but couldn’t come within 1 second per lap of what he had been running in the last 16 outings there. The Miata, however, broke the track record that was set 30+ years ago by a professional team during the Runoffs race. The Integra had never come closer than .8 seconds to that record over 17 years, and the Miata never got near to it. Well at least Mazda must be happy. Now they can concentrate on taking over “American Sedan”.