Protege 5 vs. Matrix XR
 

Today a few members from the CPC decided to go to the track for Mazda's Sport Compact Challenge. Maxx Mazda entered into the competition, but was beaten in the 2nd round. There was a dealer sponsored XR that was also eliminated in the 2nd round, and they decided they would race each other to see who had the fastest hatch...Maxx of course has a CAI and Mazdaspeed exhaust on 17s while the XR also had a CAI and Borla exhaust with a full TRD suspension rollin on 19s...who won? watch the video :D (BTW the announcer kept calling the PR5 the "Protege S" LOL!"

BTW the play by play was by me, unfortunately one of them screwed up staging and I ran out of memory, so I had to give out the specs during the race :P

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I am TEH W1N! :D

I whopped that Matrix good! LOL! A whopping 0.03 seconds!

1st off ,, good win ..

but 17.91 .. doesn't that mean that you would BARELY beat me in my 2nd gen 1.5L .... with 92 (SCREAMING)hp...
Bruce

Like I said, I was stupidly almost full of fuel (40Kg worth, someone do the conversion) and it was about 30*C today, with a pretty gusty headwind.

na , just thought the times were similar...
I wonder if you would have picked up like a second or something from having a half or 1.4 tank of gas ,versus the Full tank ...
anyway like I said ..
Good kill,,.. especially with Evidence..

Yep, it wasn't that great of a day to race...some who ran consistent 12's were running 14's to give you an idea of the track conditions. the LX 2.0 ran 19's...BTW to explain the format, they didnt use the head up usual drag, you gotta decide on a dial in time, and it will determine when you will go against your competitor, ie. your dial in is 18 and your competitor is 19, he gets a 1 second head start...also if your final time is below your dial in time, you are disqualified...hence why the 19 second LX 2.0 won first (last run dial in 19.00...ran 19.05 :eek: ) and the MSP lost as he had a dial in of 16.25 and ran a 16.13.

Well, I worked it out and it's close to 88Lbs of gas that I didn't need... :eek:

It was a bracket-racing format which was killer if you were consistent. That LX that beat me in the second round, although it ran 19's because it was auto it was consistent as hell. That's what counts in bracket-racing.

That Titanium MSP there has 1,040 Km on it, all of them from racing. It was first driven on the strip with a whopping 70Km on the Odometer (brand new) and now has some bad ass turbo leak and is as inconsistent as your grandmother's bowel movements. Sad to see, but it's Mazda Canada's car so oh well. :rolleyes:

more videos including first round bracket, jet powered Civic and a 1000hp school bus :D

that school bus i MAD CRAZY!!!

that was some serious wheeling

haha yeah it ran a 14 while on 2 wheels :D

Dood i gotta get me that bus!!:eek:

You and me both! You should have seen it! :eek: :eek: :eek:

What did you use to take the photo's ...
a digi cam.. I need to get a video camera that does digital video..
Bruce

that was pretty close, the matrix had CAI/full catback running on chrome 18's. i believe the tires were 225/40/ZR18's. i think it was also midly lowered with TRD springs

I went to Race City again last night and some guy thought my car WAS a Matrix!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: