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When you put a whole mess of Spec Miatas on a short track for a quick sprint race, you get a good candidate for a Move of the Month video, or in this case, moves of the month. NASA Arizona racer Jason Griepentrog and the rest of the Arizona Spec Miata crew dice it out for an action-packed race at Wild Horse Pass East, giving the commuters on Interstate 10 something fun to watch as they pass by on cruise control.
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NASA Arizona’s Jason Griepentrog had a great dice with Michael Kasdorf of Team 8 Ball Racing at the Bondurant racetrack in Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Ariz. This video doesn’t show all the action, but it showcases how competitive Spec Miata is in the Arizona Region. Nice work, guys.
We had 30 Spec Miatas take the green flag for the race on Sunday and only one less on Saturday. Eleven NASA Arizona drivers, 18 NASA SoCal drivers and one very fast NorCal driver showed up in the middle of the desert in February to a track that could be considered one of the top 15 in America. Maybe that’s the draw. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s only three hours from Phoenix and most of L.A.
In Saturday’s clockwise racing action, Justin Crickenberger was the immediate frontrunner, with blistering times in the mid 1:06s during warmup and qualifying, but Keith Dees, Ryan Pond and Justin Hall were in the mix too. When the flag dropped for the race, 29 Spec Miatas safely made it through Turn 1 with just the slightest of friendly fender rubbing. For a bunch of SM drivers who don’t normally race together it was one of the more “polite” Spec Miata race starts.
True to form, Justin Crickenberger won it with