I noticed that Veronica's Mazda MX-5 "GT Pace Car" run of 35.1 seconds bested many Ford GT runs that day at El Torro.
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I might interpret the data somewhat differently, and am certainly not trying to be disrespectful here, but just sharing my interpretation of the limited data.
The Miata and Veronica did well, but it's relative positioning on the indicated slips would show that the Miata is probably not outperforming many Ford GT's, unless you were to take the Mazda 6th run and compare it against the GT's initial practice laps.
The Miata runs an end of the pack 47.403 sec. time in the same practice lap #2, however, keep in mind, no one was really trying in the practice laps I would guess, just trying to get a feel of the course. So, those times are probably not too overly indicative of a car or driver's potential.
In the 6th run, the Mazda's time of 35.15 seconds places it 12th out of the 15 cars driven during that slot. Nonetheless that is impressive to run with the GT's, and even manage to beat 3 of them in that timed set of laps.
In any event, these are just two small snippets, and the final results will likely show more meaningful data, perhaps it could show Mazda dominance, our current data is just too limited to show that.