5X Racing News
Jan
5
2017
The Art of Heel-Toe Downshifting
Why heel-toe downshift? When you are racing a car - or driving it within the higher RPM range during spirited jaunts - downshifting to a lower gear causes a mismatch between engine speed and wheel...
Oct
14
2013
5X Racing visits the Nurburgring
As racecar drivers and sports car enthusiasts, we probably can agree that we all share a common dream - which is to someday drive the Nürburgring Nordschleife (if you don’t, then I...
May
31
2013
Project Miata Streetfighter: Vol 4 "Driving the Train"
For our fourth entry in our Project Streetfighter series, where we are highlighting the rehabilitation/race inspired rebuild of John's daily driven 1999 Mazda Miata, we will highlight the...
May
17
2013
Project Miata Streetfighter: Vol 3 "Getting our Head straight"
For our third entry in our Project Streetfighter series, we're "Getting our Head Straight". Yup, we're documenting the process of our engine build for John's 1999 Mazda Miata daily driver, dubbed...
Mar
25
2013
Race Recap: NASA FL Homestead March 23-24 2013
The 5X Racing team visited Homestead-Miami Speedway again this past weekend for the second round of the NASA Florida Spec Miata Challenge, which just happens to be the series 5X Racing supports...