This Bizarre Miata Is Not a Snowplow

Timothy

Even the wrap was a somewhat last-minute job. One of the two locals who usually pitches in with Dozeman’s wrap jobs came down with COVID-19 and couldn’t do it. So, Dozeman, his son and a couple others learned how to do it themselves. They picked the Strip Weathers livery from Pixar’s Cars since getting kids interested in racing was important to the team, and the team has a lot of respect for Richard Petty, who voices the character of Strip. They bought about one and a half Miatas’ worth of wrap material to figure it out and the curvy Miata body wasn’t easy to wrap, but they made it happen. 

“There’s a lot of people who have helped us,” Dozeman said, pointing out the long list of thank-yous he made on the car’s big reveal post. “It’s been a five-year build.”

The race was close—Brianne suffered a costly did-not-finish run in the class after the car’s differential broke, at which point they thought it was the clutch that had failed. After trying to fit two different new clutches to the car, they realized it was the differential that had failed. They lucked out, though, as Miata road racing shop Jesse Prather Motorsports was just five miles away from the Rallycross Nationals site and sold them a new differential. 

They made it to the last day of the race weekend after three hours of sleep, when Peter was leading until he hit two cones, essentially giving the win away to Brianne. The third-place finisher wasn’t completely left in the dust, though, which is the beauty of such a competitive class. 

That being said, I wouldn’t try plowing snow with it. 

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Correction: Thursday, August 20, 2020 11:12 p.m. ET: The autocross car Corn raced was in the B-Mod class, not A-Mod. This has been corrected above.

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