Get Your Heart Racing
Add heart rate to all the other data you collect and you may be surprised by what you find. And, yes, it matters. Special to MazdaMotorsports.com by Larry Mason. Mason is an ACE-certified personal trainer and a brand ambassador for Polar. He has been training and racing with Polar heart rate monitors since 1994. He’s […]”
Leveraging Data: Throttle Application
Comparing throttle position and speed can reveal several facts about a driver’s habits and areas that need improvement. MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development recently hosted an online data acquisition seminar with Mazda racer Randy Pobst and AiM Sports Training Manager Roger Caddell. During the seminar they covered several topics about using data to improve driver performance. We’ll […]”
Racecar Build: MZR-powered Van Diemen
David Ferguson’s Protoype 2 Van Diemen RFS-03 lived much of its life as a Sports 2000 before being converted to a very fast, Mazda MZR-powered P2 car. When SCCA decide to consolidate and rearrange its sports racing classes into Prototype 1 and Protoype 2, the idea was to get more – and more varied – […]”
Make the Big Stick Speak Softly
You can make your car quieter without losing horsepower. There is nothing quite like the sound of a rotary at full song. It’s the sort of thing that makes a gearhead’s heart flutter. Unfortunately not everyone responds to the noise the same way, which is why sound limits at racetracks are here to stay. […]”
Preparing for Solo Nationals
A few tricks and tips to make a trip to the SCCA Solo National Championships more effective. The SCCA Solo National Championships, like any other big event, can be a nightmare flurry of last-minute preparation. Trying to get the car prepared, get everything ready and packed for the trip to Lincoln, Neb., where the drivers […]”
Mazda Racecar: Adam Poland’s PWC MX-5
Is it possible to start with a $5000, flood-damaged car and win a Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car Championship race? Adam Poland says yes, and backed it up by winning Round 8 at Road America in his Eastex Motorsports/Poland Construction Mazda MX-5. “We stumbled across that car for a really good price,” Poland said at […]”
Mazda Racecar: Schenker’s CSP Miata
Bill Schenker will admit that his MiataRoadster/ChaseCam/OS Giken Miata, prepared for SCCA Solo in the C Street Prepared class, is expensive. Too expensive, in fact. But, he says, that’s only because of a lot of trial and error that probably should not have happened. “People always talk about my car, and it’s unfortunately probably true…. […]”
Mazda Racecar: Craig Naylor’s STS Miata
The Miata is one of the most popular and successful cars in autocross and SCCA Solo. Light and nimble, it’s a great car for maneuvering around a tight course marked out by traffic cones. Early cars can also be quite inexpensive, and Craig Naylor’s Street Touring S Miata is a perfect example. “I bought the […]”
The Art of Adjustable Shocks
Jesse Prather explains what a good set of double-adjustable shocks can do for a racer and help him or her tune the car. Adjustable shock absorbers, or dampers if you prefer, are fairly commonplace at all levels of racing. Most are double adjustable for compression and rebound, some are adjustable for compression only, and the […]”
Build it Neat
Andris Laivins, crew chief for CJ Wilson Racing and owner of Laivins Race Cars in Austin, Texas, has turned more than a few road cars into racing machines. There are obvious goals in such an undertaking, primarily speed and reliability. But there are some objectives to which car builders should pay attention that are often […]”
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