{"id":11221,"date":"2026-05-15T18:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/turning-an-mazda-mx-5-into-an-off-road-beast-speed-freaks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:10:58","slug":"turning-an-mazda-mx-5-into-an-off-road-beast-speed-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/turning-an-mazda-mx-5-into-an-off-road-beast-speed-freaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning an Mazda MX-5 Into an Off-Road Beast | Speed Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Speed Freaks, Zeph turns his attention to one of the biggest challenges in chasing 200 mph <!--more--> on sand: traction. <\/p>\n<p>To understand how grip, tires, suspension, and power delivery work together, the team is set a wild new challenge\u2014transforming a Mazda MX-5 into an off-road machine capable of tearing around a muddy motocross track. <\/p>\n<p>As Zeph researches tires and off-road handling for Pendine, the build becomes a hands-on lesson in how crucial traction is when every second, and every wheelspin, counts.<\/p>\n<p>Now available on SPOTIFY! \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2kr4kb2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2kr4kb2d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25baSubscribe \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/wpc2Q1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Speed Freaks, Zeph turns his attention to one of the biggest challenges in chasing 200 mph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}