As you may know, I have a 2nd gen MX-5, an NB. Since I bought the car I’ve always tried to find a balance between it being a daily driver and using it at the circuit and mountain roads, so all the modifications I’ve done have always followed the same idea: improving the stock performance without making the car a pain to drive on the streets.

6th and 7th of October had been marked in my calendar and in many other RWB enthusiasts’ ones for a long time: just about a year after Champagne was born, Nakai-san was coming back to Reims, France, to bring another one of his creations to life.

Time attack is a discipline that has always fascinated me: Getting rid of everything but yourself and your car from the equation and battling exclusively against the clock, no excuses, trying to lower lap times by tenths of a second until the car limit is reached.

There are not many people who can brag about their name being almost a synonym for a driving style. It’s even more difficult to earn the King nickname and have almost everyone agree. However, both things are true for Keiichi Tsuchiya.

Some cars are deeply tied to their background in competition, and the Impreza saga is a perfect example of it. These Subarus are virtually a synonym of the World Rally Championship, especially on their most emblematic iteration, the first one.

For every motorsport aficionado from the 80s out there, the 1993 debut of the first Impreza was a memorable experience for sure.