Small car, short wheelbase, big power always equates to “twitchy” being used as an adjective to describe the handling characteristics. The more power applied, the more insane the handling will be. In a featherweight drag car that has super-grippy tires, enough breathed-on Dorito power to take care of cars twice it’s size and four times it’s displacement, getting loose and sideways is going to have some dire consequences for driver and vehicle alike. This Mazda RX-3 is one bad mother, make no doubt. You’ll get to see it on a clean pass, where even under the best of circumstances the back end wants to try and shift around a bit. Then there’s the race against another Mazda where the driver seems hell-bent on catching his opponent, and from the launch until the car finally comes to a rest wrong-side up, there wasn’t a single happy motion out of the car at all. At the dig it gets sketchy. It powers into a slide, then the one attempt at correction leaves the driver looking at the world in a different light. At least the car only went over once, leaving damage to the roof skin and the hood area.
That shutdown area sure looks…economical…
you had the race won,with your opponets red light—–BUT you crossed the center line—you lose