Making a pass on an out-of-class car in a high-speed corner requires two things from both drivers: awareness and cooperation. We see both of those come together in this installment of the NASA Racing Gear Store Move of the Month.
NASA Great Lakes 944 Spec racer, and 2025 National Champion, Calvin Rowe exited Mid-Ohio’s Turn 11 with a head of steam headed down Thunder Valley, with Spec Miata driver Michael Spivey just ahead.
Rowe presents himself to Spivey in the classic fashion — by filling his rear view mirror — then making a decisive move toward the inside of the turn. Spivey gets the message and doesn’t take his car all the way to the inside curbing, and letting Rowe get by. Sometimes those things don’t go that well, so it’s nice to see the awareness and cooperation in mixed-class racing.
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If the Miata moved to the right a little faster, he could have taken the preferred inside line.