To fund the upcoming racing season, Demaras Racing has bit the bullet and sold off the No. 16 MagiSeal Miata track-day car. It was fun while it lasted, but racing is expensive business!
Way back in 2021, young Daniel Demaras had just won consecutive kart-racing championships. The decision was made to step up to racing cars instead. To get extra seat time on the ‘big tracks‘ he’d compete at, the Demaras Racing team invested in a track-ready 1999 Mazda Miata.
Daniel mastered the manual transmission in this car, improved his racecraft, and learned the intricacies of tracks like Mosport, Shannonville and Cayuga behind the wheel of the Miata. Bringing the ‘baby Viper’ to new tracks in advance of Formula 1200 race weekends was great preparation, and this helped Daniel win the 2023 Canadian Formula 1200 Championship.
Even Chris strapped into the drivers’ seat, entering the No. 16 MagiSeal Miata in Ontario Time Attack and Push-It-To-The-Limit autoslalom events. The car even raced on the concrete oval-track at Sunset Speedway during King of the Hill competitions between father and son. The Miata was a well-balanced, street-legal race car that could even be taken to the drive-in movies. The ideal first car for the world of motor racing.
In 2025, Daniel Demaras will be competing in the Miata Canada Cup with the front-running Mortimer Racing Group. The team has three race-ready Mazda Miata race cars complete with full roll-cages, fuel-cells and containment seats; everything within ‘spec’ to race in the four-round series this summer.
The No. 16 MagiSeal Miata was too nice a car to just gut it and turn into a race car. It still had all its creature-comforts like carpet, windows and a radio. None of those things would ever be in a true race car.
But by selling it in one piece, the Miata’s new owner will drive in comfort on the way to the local track or car-meet. Hopefully another young racer launches their driving career in that special car.