November 2013

  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 […]”

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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 […]”

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  “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 […]”

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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 […]”

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“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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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  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 […]”

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  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 […]”

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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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  At the 1977 Champion Spark Plug Road Racing Classic – what the Sports Car Club of America’s National Championship Runoffs was called then – at Road Atlanta, the B Sedan grid was full of Datsuns. That was only to be expected, as Datsuns had ruled the class for the previous six years. There was […]”

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SCCA RallyCross – although not to be confused with the form of RallyCross where four cars compete side by side on a dirt and asphalt course with jumps and such – is hard on a car. Throwing a car sideways through mud, dirt or snow can be tough on a machine. Yet Jayson Woodruff’s Miata […]”

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The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) has announced that next year, instead of a single National Championship event, it will have a NASA Eastern States Championship at Road Atlanta in August and a Western States Championship at Sonoma Raceway in November. In addition, Mazda will offer champions from those two events the chance to compete […]”

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The trend in the past few years to create a winning C Sports Racing car in Sports Car Club of America Club Racing competition has typically followed two paths – rebody a Formula Atlantic car, or use a high-revving motorcycle engine in a lightweight chassis. Yet Dudley Fleck has managed to buck that trend and […]”

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