Budget endurance racing — 24 Hours of Lemons and ChampCar — is where the Miata quietly dominates, and it's the cheapest door into real wheel-to-wheel racing.
The idea
Cheap cars, long races, a team of drivers sharing seat time and cost. Lemons caps car value (drivetrain and safety gear excluded); ChampCar classes cars by a points value and penalizes speed parts
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