Two vids, high definition taken at night on an Italian track (Misano Santa Monica). Each video (more or less) is from the perspective of either 8 or s2000 but of the same race.

Here's the first one from the 8's perspective: 24.6 MB
VIDEO #1

The second of the s2000: 39.2 MB
VIDEO #2

 

pretty cool, good to see him make the pass at the end.

 

I really enjoyed watching that. Not because he passed the S2000, but more of the way he drove. A real pro.

 

The S2000 wasn't doing very well, seemed to miss several apexes and/or it wasn't set up well. Looks like the 8 ate his lunch pretty plainly in the corners and in the straights. I thought is should be the other way around? Or maybe they were just playing

Nice vids though!

 

Yes nice videos and good quality too, thanks for that

 

Did anybody else notice the flames shooting from the 8? 3:22 into the second video you can see it during a downshift, again at 3:46 during an upshift. (just a couple examples, it happens frequently)

 

Great videos!! Hopefully one day I can take mine out to the track and really test it. Great find.

 

Yes, you often see the 8 flame in these track video's. If I recall correctly, Hymee's video's show more of the same.

 

the flame from stock?

I'd believe it...I can roast marshmellows off the exhaust when its revved

 

Hymee has a video too? I've been missing a ton of things lately!

 

I'm almost postive it's Hymee (90%), sorry if a made a mistake. More night track stuff, the driver almost loses it but does a great recovery. That wasn't Hymee, somebody want to chime in?

 

nope, you are not seeing things, That's the trademark of the Rotary Engine!

 

g-d I love our car!

 

Yes, after posting I did some additional research and discovered Monza is a Formula 1 track and apparently a very fast one too.

 

The track looked really small. I'm surprised it's considered fast. Guess it was the darkness.

 

The heel-toe downshifts the guy in the S2000 was doing were largely ceremonial or something. He blips the throttle, the car goes back down near idle, then the clutch drags the engine up to speed. There was no rev-matching. The RX-8 driver was just *way* more experienced.

 

Nice videos!

Yeah, you can tell they were either just playing around or the S2000 driver was definetely not as good as the RX8 driver. The S2000 should pull away more and it did on the longer straights and the S2000 driver shifted WAY too early and was in the wrong gear half the time.

Really cool videos though.

 

Extremely cool. The sound of the rotary combined with a top driver cant be beat!

 

I don't know which track it is but it isn't the Monza track.

 

It's called being catless and running a little rich, it doesn't have much to do with being a rotary.

 

Finally he passes and hits 141mph!

then he starts driving like a race car driver and keeping the Revs up.

What? What's this? 164mph!!!

Man that Sc200 really flies.

It has the power not only to catch up quickly but pass at anytime the driver wants too!

Nice car.

 

That's kph...

 

Hi!

the RX8 driver in the video I'm me! My name is Andrea and i live in Italy, the circuit mane is: Misano Santa Monica, every year runs
world-wide championship SBK!!!
Thanks for all yours compliment, I must specify that the driver of the
S2000 had some problem with the brakes... and that same I during the
session of tests have burnt the coils! Therefore you have mean low the
engine salted of revs to hard work....
I'm sorry for my bad English.. but if you have some questions for me I will be happy for answering to you.

Bye!
Andrea

 

Andrea,

Thank you for the video, my question, do you have more video clips.

-brothervoodoo

 

Hi,
I have other video! If you go in this site:
www.mx5passion.it
you will find others in the section "video". In particular: "RX8Giro di pista Misano".
The 1° Novenber I will go for enather track day to VARANO a little circuit near Parma city I will turn video of the day and I will put them in net!
Bye!
Andrea.