[Pasha Paterson]

MX5 cup is not suitable to be driven with almost any other car in AC because it has those insanely grippy slicks. All that car does is go flat out, dive every corner at max speed you can. With a little more power it does sub 7min Nord. Tourist. The tyres have a little crazy grip. Plus as a stock car it's pretty damn boring to drive, low power, infinite grip slicks. It will be a carnage when some cars have way too different cornering speeds and straight line speeds.

That diversity is exactly what made IMSA Street Tuner such an interesting division. Last year it had the BMW M3, MINI Cooper, Mazda MX-5, Nissan Altima, and Porsche Cayman all running together. Each car has wildly different performance characteristics but they worked out the BoP to produce some incredible racing. Yes the MX-5 was flat-out most of the time, but they had to be skillful in carrying that speed to keep up with the other cars. I don't pretend to be even a quarter as smart as the IMSA engineers in setting up BoP, but I'm interested in seeing whether a similar selection of cars in AC could be adjusted to run together, with some good drivers (better than me) behind the wheel. I encourage you to take a look at some of the IMSA Continental Tire Challenge races on YouTube and see what all the fuss is about.