Sometimes championships look easy – win, win, win and carry that points lead throughout the season and clinch before the final race. Then there is what Christian Szymczak had to go through to claim the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup championship. It came down to a couple of very determined, fast and consistent drivers. Sure, it […]”
The old question of whether racing drivers are athletes ought to have been settled by now. Gone are the days when some of NASCAR’s best used to light up a cigarette during caution periods and drivers were out of shape. These days, training is everything in order to get every last bit of performance out […]”
Ever since Terry McCarthy won the 1994 Sports Car Club of America E Production National Championship in a Miata, the car has been a popular choice for the class and eventually also F Production as well. When the current generation MX-5 came along in 2006, it seemed natural that it would also find a home […]”
The SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup has announced its 12-race calendar for 2014. The campaign will consist of six weekends, with each event a doubleheader consisting of two separately scored races. As in years past, the series will be taking part in some of the most noteworthy racing weekends in North America, joining the […]”
TJ Fischer is eyeing each rung of the Mazda Road to Indy ladder with one goal in mind: make it to the top. “Racing in the Indy 500 – that’s the place for me,” says Fischer. The first step on Fischer’s personal ladder to Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the Worldspeed Formula Car Challenge Formula Mazda […]”
Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesels Show Well in Debut The Venn diagram that best showcases Mazda Motorsports is the overlap between endurance racing and club racing. That overlap was showcased on a freezing cold weekend at the longest endurance race in America, the National Auto Sport Association (NASA)’s US Air Force 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Of […]”
It may seem silly to compare the N.A.S.A. US Air Force 25 Hours of Thunderhill with the Rolex 24 at Daytona. One is a club race held on a club-owned track in the middle of Northern California agricultural land while the other is a professional race with an illustrious history at one of America’s most […]”
There have always been rivalries: Yankees vs. Red Sox. Beta vs. VHS. Coke vs. Pepsi. Tom vs. Jerry. In the automotive retail world, that rivalry is Factory Guys versus Dealers. To finally put to bed who’s faster, Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) has thrown down the gauntlet, entering three specially modified-for-racing 2014 Mazda6s in the […]”
As if earning an opportunity to present his business case for a shot at the Mazda Club Racer Shootout wasn’t enough, Joey Bickers was also selected to try out for the chance to represent the U.S. in a pair of prestigious races in the United Kingdom as part of the Team USA Scholarship. To get […]”
“I’m still absorbing it, to be honest,” says Joey Bickers, more than a week after winning the Mazda Club Racer Shootout and the $75,000 scholarship to race in the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup that goes with it. “Now I’m kind of focused on the goals for next season.” In less than two years, the 21-year-old […]”
Carter Thompson will be changing the color scheme of his third-generation RX-7 Super Street Modified car for 2014. He does so each season anyway, but his competitors may be putting special pressure on him to repaint; they prefer not to get beat by pink cars. Like many SCCA Solo competitors, his opponents aren’t that upset […]”
Most of the young drivers who made it to the final rounds of the Mazda Club Racer Shootout have some experience with data. They’ve seen it, they’ve used it and usually understand it. For some experiencing data acquisition for the first time, though, it can be a little confusing. It shouldn’t be, says Eric […]”
It really doesn’t matter How many people are in a class, as long as there are more than one, winning a Sports Car Club of America Solo National Championship isn’t easy. Winning nine of them gets you noticed, especially when you win six in a row in essentially the same class. Kyung Wootton has done […]”
“As soon as he stops, I punch him and yank him out of the car.” Pierre Kleinubing is laughing about the idea of doing a driver change with Jayson Clunie in the No. 31 Street Tuner i-Moto Mazdaspeed3 that way during a Continental Tire Series race, but he doesn’t really mean it. It’s actually […]”
Mazda and motorsports are inexorably linked. So when the design team at Mazda North American Operations was creating some concept vehicles for the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas, it was only natural for them to include a couple of motorsports-themed iterations of its latest vehicles, the Mazda3 and the Mazda6. Each […]”
“It’s kind of a black art, getting into professional racing; nobody really seems to have a for-sure answer for what to do and how to make a name for yourself. This is another way for us to do that,” says Adam Poland, winner of the Teen Mazda Challenge championship in Texas. The 22-year old from […]”
For more than a decade, the winning trend in the Sports Car Club of America’s C Sports Racing category has been to rebody a Formula Atlantic car to meet the sports racing rules. The Formula Atlantic cars are fast, and adding the bodywork tends to make them quicker. Usually those who make the conversion use […]”
Darryl Wills may not have raced everything, but as he rattles off the list – flat track, motocross, offroad and road racing on two wheels; sprint cars, drag racing, offroad and sports cars on four – it sure seems like it. So it seems almost unlikely that a Formula Mazda, spotted during a visit to […]”
Mazda will make its long-awaited return to the ranks of prototype racing in 2014 when it enters a pair of factory-backed P2 cars in the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. The Japanese brand will transition from 2013’s two-car Grand-Am Rolex GX Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D diesel program to compete in the TUDOR Championship’s new Prototype class, utilizing […]”
Mazda Bringing Game-Changing SKYACTIV-D Smart Diesel Technology to TUDOR United SportsCar Championship for 2014 Mazda Motorsports Announces Return to Elite Racing Prototype Program November 14, 2013 (IRVINE, Calif.)—At Mazda, “Never Stop Challenging” isn’t just a catchphrase, it’s a company maxim. After nearly two years of planning, Mazda Motorsports will field a pair of factory-backed SKYACTIV-D […]”
The latest Mazda Motorsports success story is 21-year-old Joey Bickers from Moorpark, Calif. After a grueling day of on- and off-track tasks, Joey edged out four other Mazda-powered club racers to win $75,000, the largest prize in all of grassroots motorsports, at the annual Mazda Club Racer Shootout. “Wow, what a day! I am […]”
Matt Schultz had already been racing karts for 18 years when he decided it was time to go car racing. When he did, he jumped straight into Spec Miata. Six years later, he’s the NASA Spec Miata National Champion. “I started to research the classes, and I felt Spec Miata was a pretty good […]”
History has shown that, even with a given set of rules, there is no one right way to build a racecar. With enough latitude, designers will find unique solutions to solve a common problem. Witness things like six-wheeled Tyrell F1 cars, turbine-powered Indy cars or even diesel-powered sports cars. In SCCA’s Production category, a common […]”
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