Nick Leverone’s Super Touring Lite Miata is prepped to the limit Super Touring Lite is becoming one of SCCA’s most popular classes, and was the third largest at the 2017 SCCA Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is also one of the most varied, with a tremendous number of different models serving as bases for […]
Large Spec Miata field includes some of the best racers from the Southeast The NASA Western States Championships are done, and now focus turns to the East and Sebring International Raceway, hosting a NASA championship event for the first time. The NASA Eastern States Championships will be held at the historic circuit this weekend, with […]
Kenny Murillo claimed his fourth Pirelli World Challenge TCA win of the season as Mazda claims the Manufacturers Championship Matthew Fassnacht claimed the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car A championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca over defending champion and S.A.C. Racing teammate Elivan Goulart. Both were in MX-5 Cup cars for most of the […]
Reinhold Joest is a soft-spoken man who shuns the spotlight and rarely grants interviews. But there’s no avoiding the spotlight that has shone on the race team he founded, Joest Racing. The team will do battle as Mazda Team Joest in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2018 with the Mazda RT24-P prototype under Daytona Prototype international (DPi) rules.
Already having collected a $200,000 Mazda Road to 24 scholarship for his 2017 Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich® Tires Championship, Patrick Gallagher (No. 29 McCumbee McAleer Racing) added a cool $75,000 bonus to his year by winning the Mazda MX-5 Cup Global Challenge at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday.
Mark Brakke was looking for a change from his E Production Miata; he found it in an H Prod Mazda2 In a class once filled with tiny-engined British roadsters, the newer sedans are taking over SCCA’s H Production – they generally have more power and are sometimes easier to build thanks to Limited Prep rules. […]
His teams have won at Indy before, but the SCCA Runoffs provided Juncos the opportunity to race on the famous track himself Juncos Racing’s Mazda Road to Indy drivers have won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Both Victor Franzoni (Pro Mazda Championship) and Kyle Kaiser (Indy Lights) won on the IMS road course in their way […]
For one fortunate racer, it will take just 90 minutes to earn $75,000, or more, this Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as Mazda stages the Mazda MX-5 Cup Challenge. Both 45-minute races will be live streamed on Saturday, October 14. Race one will be at 12:40 pm, while the second race will start at 5:00 pm. Both are Pacific time zone.
Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car A racer has found success with the MX-5 Cup car and is running second in the driver standings Elivan Goulart took an NC MX-5 to the 2016 Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car A championship. He started his title defense with that same car, but he and team S.A.C. Racing […]
The 2017 NASA Western States Championships presented by Toyo Tires will be remembered as the year of the fire. A multi-acre grassfire delayed the Sunday morning schedule by almost three hours. When the smoke cleared, it was a hot battle between 29 Spec Miata racers chasing an opportunity for the $100,000 Mazda Road to 24 (MRT24) Shootout.
NASA racers from the western half of the country vie for championships at Thunderhill Raceway on Oct. 6-8 The fourth annual NASA Western States Championships presented by Toyo Tires is attracting a strong contingent of competitors that will head to Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California on Oct. 6-8. Among the Mazda drivers, that includes not […]
A newcomer to the series, Stout has made quite an impression with two wins in 2017 Patrick Gallagher may have clinched the 2017 Idemitsu MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires championship and the $200,000 scholarship that goes with it before the end of the season, but Rookie of the Year was still raging with […]
– Mazda Racers Take Home Five Championships at 54th Annual Event.
The Mazda Motorsports-supported Women’s Initiative Luncheon at the SCCA Solo National Championships inspired attendees to generate and spread ideas about attracting women to autocross The Women’s Initiative Luncheon, supported by Mazda Motorsports, at the 2017 SCCA Tire Rack Solo National Championships was a big deal. As the number of entrants in the Ladies classes in […]
Elliot Finlayson dominated Formula Enterprises to win his first national championship As most predicted, Elliot Finlayson became the fifth Mazda SCCA national champion in the first race on Sunday morning, Oct. 1, to kick off the third race day of the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Runoffs rookie Finlayson, of Yorkville, Ill., […]
Melvin David Kemper Jr. takes the title over Jarret Voorhies on the second day of the SCCA National Championship Runoffs It was opposite ends of the age and experience spectrum on the Formula Mazda podium of the 2017 SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sept. 30, as 69-year-old Melvin David Kemper Jr. […]
Keith Grant and Eric Prill make it three Mazda victories on the first day of races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Keith Grant became the first Mazda-powered winner at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 2017 SCCA National Championship Runoffs, taking the Formula Atlantic title in his Mazda/Hoosier/Polestar Swift 016a Mazda. Polesitter Sedat Yelkin, also in a […]
Final round of the SVRA series at VIRginia attracts a strong collection of NA Miatas The fifth and final round of the inaugural season of the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Mazda Miata Heritage Cup took place at VIRginia International Raceway on Sept. 24-25. The races for first-generation NA Miatas continue to attract attention from […]
Miatas take the front rows of E and F Production at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs Four days of qualifying have concluded at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and the polesitters are determined for 28 classes of racing. Among those are six Mazda drivers, including Spec Miata fast qualifier Chris Haldeman. […]
Champion autocrosser travels the country to compete, always seeking to improve her craft There are those who seem to hit that right combination of having fun and taking motorsports seriously. Yes, it’s supposed to be fun – why do it if it’s not? But winning is also nice. Deana Kelley seems to have found the […]
The 2017 SCCA Runoffs will be one for the ages. With almost 1,000 entries across 28 classes, many records will be eclipsed. Among the entries are approximately 300 Mazda-powered race cars, more than any other brand competing. Since 1977, Mazda racers have won 91 SCCA Runoffs Championships.
It’s no longer $75,000 to win at the 2017 Mazda MX-5 Cup Challenge. Racers now have another 10,000 reasons to enter. MX-5 Cup partners PAGID Racing and BFGoodrich® Tires are each sponsoring $5,000 prizes, so the winner could now pick up a total of $85,000.
Patrick Gallagher earns $200,000 Mazda Road to 24 Scholarship. His McCumbee-McAleer Racing teammate Robert Stout earned third place in the championship and the Rookie-of-the-Year (RoY) honors for $50,000.
Patrick Gallagher put his stamp on the 2017 Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich® Tires season as the champion scored his eighth victory on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Robert Stout takes $50,000 rookie of the year prize at season finale.
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