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 […]”
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 […]”
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 […]”
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 […]”
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 […]”
Production-based racecars are a perfect place for a racer to get started, and many drivers never leave the arena of Touring cars, Spec Miata and the like. But for the driver seeking something fast but who still wants something that looks like a road car, Grand Touring may be the ideal destination. The Sports Car […]”
Endurance races used to be about which car was the most reliable and, when a car broke, how quickly it could be repaired. Now to win a race like the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring or the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, it’s more an exercise in speed; the races may […]”
Jim Downing was one of the racers at the first SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Riverside International Raceway in 1964. In fact, he scored the first Runoffs pole in history, in Formula Vee. Fifty years later, he’s still racing at the Runoffs in a Mazda rotary-powered Peach Day-02 C Sports Racing car. But in between […]”
There’s no doubt racing is fun and challenging at any level. But sometimes you just want to go faster. In many forms of racing, there are numerous things you can do to go faster, most of which cost money. Maybe a lot of money. If you’re racing a class like Spec Miata, though, there’s not […]”
The Mazda Club Racer Shootout is the single largest prize in club racing. Since 2007 Mazda has annually promoted one talented club racer to the professional ranks. The $75,000 prize funds a drive in the 2014 Mazda MX-5 Cup. Eighteen racers were semi-finalists, having met the eligibility criteria for 2013, each having won a […]”
Andersen Promotions, which will operate all levels of the Mazda Road to Indy next year, unveiled the 2014 schedule of events for the three series comprising the ladder system – Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. For the first […]”
Mazda knows its rotaries. Years of racing various versions showed the company and its racing teams how to make them powerful and darn near bulletproof. It’s the sort of proven, comfortable technology that enabled SpeedSource to have so much success with its RX-8s in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in the GT category, […]”
Data Acquisition has long been a useful tool in racing, and innovations such as GPS- and OBD-II-based data have made it much more attainable to the club racer. However, generating data is one thing; knowing how to use it is quite another. For CJ Wilson Racing Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge drivers Stevan McAleer, […]”
My name is Stevan McAleer and I am 29 years old. I was born in Glasgow Scotland and up until my move to the States in 2009, I lived in the same place with my mum Shirley, dad Gordon and my four younger brothers: Gregg (28), Derek (23), Stuart (21) and Sam (17). My dad […]”
Elliot Skeer of Vista, Calif., won the season finale of the SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup on Friday at Road Atlanta, but it wasn’t enough to take the championship away from Christian Szymczak, who finished fourth. Szymczak, who finished third in the Thursday half of the doubleheader, only needed a top-six finish […]”
We caught up with John Doonan, the Director of Motorsports for Mazda North American Operations and asked him a few questions about the 2013 season and what to expect in 2014. Q How did the 2013 season go for Mazda? What were the highlights and lowlights? A I hope 2013 is most remembered for the […]”
It’s the American Le Mans Series’ second-longest race at 10 hours or 1000 miles around the challenging Road Atlanta circuit. It ends the season each year, and in 2013 it ends an era. The 2013 Petit Le Mans won’t be the last one, but it will be the last race as part of the American […]”
The SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup rolls into Atlanta about as close as a championship could be. That was either helped or hindered by the cancellation of the Houston race after Dario Franchitti’s IndyCar Series accident damaged the catchfence. Christian Szymczak could have extended his lead further, or Elliot Skeer could have […]”
Designed to produce affordable, simple racing, the B-Spec class is taking off within SCCA Club Racing, and racers can go pro racing if they choose with the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car B Championship. Based on subcompact cars – known as B-Segment cars in much of the world, hence the name – B-Spec is a […]”
It’s hard to imagine a racer having the kind of season that Matthew Brabham had in the 2013 Pro Mazda Championship. There have been few racing seasons in any series where the word “dominant” applied so readily. Brabham had 13 total wins, including a seven-race win streak that started in the second race of the […]”
The Miata isn’t typically the sort of car one pictures tearing around in a dirt-and-grass field in Oklahoma. Yet several drivers did exactly that and two of them claimed RallyCross National Championships in the process. The Sports Car Club of America had its final championship event of 2013 with the RallyCross National Championship at […]”
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