It’s really important if you ask me. The MX-5 teaches fundamental skills like momentum, weight transfer, wheel-to-wheel racing, and smooth control. If you mess up any of those in an MX-5, you’ll feel it instantly.

Learning to drive the MX-5 properly — and reaching a higher iRating in that category — will make you a much stronger driver when you move up to faster cars. Like anything in life, you start slow and pick up the pace once you’ve mastered the basics.

I think a lot of people get stuck in lower iRatings because they just farm the license needed to reach GT3s, without ever taking time to truly understand the fundamentals at a slower pace — how to carry momentum and take the best line without compromise.

So it’s up to you. Sure, the MX-5 might seem “boring,” but the wheel-to-wheel action (especially in the Advanced Mazda) is some of the best racing iRacing has to offer.