That was an awesome recount. Thank you.
I love venison. I want in.
OK, seriously, that sounds like a lot of fun. I need to find out more about it. What a great way to broaden my driving skill and racecraft.
I have always thought about spec Miata but have heard it is a 50 cars smash em up derby.
I think the Skippy people have an advantage of others. I was at a Porsche club track day last weekend. One of the instructors came up and questioned a corner I was doing because I was taking it different than him. I told him I was following Jim Pace's 
instructions to lengthen the straight prior to this throw away corner. Later in the day I saw him trying it my way. 
Marc
PS. It rained later in the day and I kicked all of their butts. The Quattro may have helped some.