Mazdaspeed3 - The Budget MS3
Part 2: When Little Brother Rules
By: Billy Johnson, Jay Chen, Photography by Steve Demmitt
From tuner To World Challenge championsWith almost 30 years of history, Tri-Point Engineering's story is a rare one. Starting out as a performance tuner specializing in Mazdas, Tri-Point has risen through the ranks all the way to the pinnacle of sport compact tuning and now races as the 2007 Driver's and Manufacturer's Champion in Speed World Challenge Touring Cars. But what makes Tri-Point stand out isn't necessarily its race rig, chassis fabrication or the actively campaigned World Challenge cars. It's what's parked next to them in the same Canoga Park garage: everyday customer street cars worked on by the same mechanics and fabricators who travel with the Tri-Point Mazda6 World Challenge team. It doesn't get much closer to having true race mechanics taking care of your car. If you're nice, they might even work on a non-Mazda.
| By the numbers |
| Quarter-mile e.t. (sec.) | Quarter-mile trap speed (mph) | 60-foot (sec.) | 0-60mph (sec.) | 80-0mph braking ft.) | Lateral g (g) | Fig. 8 lap time (sec.) |
| Stock Mazda3 | 16.1 | 85 | 2.6 | 8.2 | 211 | 0.82 | 27.52 |
| Tri-Point Engineering Mazda3 | 14.5 | 98 | 2.7 | 6.2 | 205 | 0.91 | 25.80 |
| Stock Mazdaspeed3 | 14.4 | 96.6 | 2.6 | 6.4 | 195 | 0.88 | 26.25 |
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By Billy Johnson, Jay Chen
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