Total MX-5 – July 2019

28 | TOTAL MX-5 |^ Summer 2019

[ MOTORSPORT PROFILE ]

Never mix business with

pleasure, goes an old saying,

but sometimes the two just

go hand-in-hand, as one

group of MX-5 motorsport

fans has discovered

B

ack when we launched Total MX-5 I

ran into the BOFI Racing boys at

the MX-5 Owners Club National

Rally at Donington Park. They had a few

interesting bits and pieces scattered

around their show stand, all of it related

to making your MX-5 go that bit quicker

around a circuit or around cones on a

windswept airfield. They had a few

quirky teeshirts for sale, too, and a funky

little logo featuring a small orange cone

with eyes and a smile.

There were no corporate uniforms and

no sense of the hard sell, but what was

abundantly clear was that everyone

manning the BOFI stand was rabidly

enthusiastic about motorsport,

especially the grassroots stuff that we

could all have a crack at without much

effort at all. I can’t remember who I

nattered to on the day, but what I do

recall was their almost missionary zeal

about encouraging every MX-5 owner in

the land to think beyond using their car

just for a trip down to the pub on a sunny

Sunday, and to try some motorsport,

even at a very minor level. As if to prove

a point, they then showed me a

prototype trackday wheel/tyre carrier

that fitted to the boot lid on an MX-5 so

you could take appropriate rubberwear

to the track without recourse to a trailer

or a mate’s van.

Fast forward to the MX5OC 2019

Spring Rally, and I bump into the guys

again. This time around their stand looks

a good deal more professional, there’s

lots more bits of kit for sale, and about

BOFI Racing

Clockwise from top

left: Putting a new

turbo installation to

the test; three more

MX-5s receive

attention in the

workshop; helping

out at the Race of

Remembrance; BOFI

is now focused full

time on selling the

sort of parts that

they’d use on their

own cars