Turning an MX-5 Cup road-course racer into an oval-racing delight

Convertibles haven’t raced at Martinsville since the 1950s, when NASCAR went to a closed cockpit concept that would have the ability to run on a variety of tracks. But a temporary assignment for Martinsville president Clay Campbell led to an idea where NASCAR and IMSA leadership agreed to put Mazda MX-5 Cup cars on an oval. And so, several decades later, the powers that be were putting …Keep reading