December 2013

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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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“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 […]”

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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 […]”

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