For SpeedSource Race Engineering principal Sylvain Tremblay, the racing bug bit, appropriately enough, with a Mazda. That Mazda was far from any racetrack, however. “If you rewind the clock, I was 13-years old riding my bicycle in my little town of Lighthouse Point, Florida,” Tremblay explains. “I came across a Champion Spark Plug RX-3 on […]”
Yes, if you’re fan of stick-and-ball sports, CJ Wilson needs no introduction. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim’s star lefty on the mound is well known in baseball circles. Now in his 10th year as a major leaguer, he has a little over a 50 percent win record as a starting pitcher and 3.61 career […]”
Northeastern racers couldn’t wait for the snow to stop and the sun to come out this year. They got as much sun as they could want, and then some, when the Northern Conference Majors Tour stopped at the 12-turn, 2.25-mile Thunderbolt Raceway at New Jersey Motorsports park for Rounds 9 and 10. With the sun […]”
Gumby didn’t drive a racecar. So seeing the lovable claymation character at a racetrack is a bit unusual. But when Kenton Koch won the second of two SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in May, Gumby was right there on the podium with him. As […]”
Matthew Brabham is competing in the Cooper Tires Indy Lights series thanks in large part to the scholarship money he earned from Mazda by winning the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires in 2013. But there’s no question that as he moved to the top rung of the Mazda Road to Indy ladder, while […]”
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Liam Dwyer described his victory at Lime Rock Park, where he co-drove the No. 27 Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5 with Tom Long in the Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge, as “a storybook ending to a fairy tale that even Hollywood couldn’t make up.” It’s a story that began at 18 months old […]”
Commemorating the model’s 25th anniversary, Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that it will partner with the UK’s JOTA Sport to enter a Mazda MX-5 in the 24 Hours Nurburgring endurance race taking place in Germany on June 21-22. Mazda has commissioned JOTA Sport to prepare the vehicle and manage the race team. The team of […]”
Rounds 3 and 4 of the BFGoodrich® Tires Super Tour brought more than 230 drivers to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Eight groups ran 30-minute sprint races on Saturday and 19-lap (or 45-minute) races on Sunday. Jim Drago left the Spec Miata field behind in a cloud of dust on Saturday, marching his No. 2 East […]”
New track records were the order of the day as the Mid-States Conference of the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour arrived at the 2.2-mile Pueblo Motorsports Park circuit for Round Nine of its 2014 Championship. Five race groups took to the track under partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s for practice and qualifying, followed […]”
For Mazda fans, watching the Mazda SKYACTIV-D Prototypes in the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship has been a bit painful. While the cars are beautiful and everyone knew that 2014 was a development year for the program, watching the cars qualify behind even the GT cars was difficult. But, then, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, […]”
The wonderful thing about SCCA Solo competition, also known as autocross, is you can go have fun with any car – no special preparation or safety equipment, other than a helmet and working seat belts, necessary. Of course, if you start with a Mazda MX-5 Miata, you’re probably having more fun than a lot of people […]”
All wins are special; A few are magical. Thanks to outstanding performances by Freedom Autosport and CJ Wilson Racing, it was the second straight Mazda MX-5 Miata 1-2-3 podium sweep in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Street Tuner race at Lime Rock Park on Saturday after a similar sweep at Mazda Raceway earlier in the […]”
For the second time in two weeks in the Indianapolis area, a young Canadian scored his first victory in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires. This time it was Garett Grist, driving for Andretti Autosport, who led from flag to flag in Saturday evening’s Allied Building Products Oval Challenge at the 0.686-mile Lucas […]”
May 24, 2014 (LIME ROCK, Conn.) – All wins are special. A few are magical. Thanks to outstanding performances by Freedom Autosport and CJ Wilson Racing, it was the second straight Mazda MX-5 Miata 1-2-3 podium sweep in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Street Tuner race this weekend. The magical part relates to the winning […]”
The Freedom 100 for the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is getting a reputation for whisker-close finishes. While this year’s margin of victory was about twice last year’s, it was still about as close as could be for Gabby Chaves. Chaves made amends for a heartbreaking second-place finish 12 months […]”
The second round of the Indianapolis tripleheader for the Mazda Road to Indy competitors begins on Friday – Indy 500 Carb Day – with the Freedom 100 Cooper Tires Indy Lights race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, then continues across town at Lucas Oil Raceway for the Cooper Tires USF2000 Powered by Mazda and Mazda Pro […]”
What happens when a father with a love for sports cars, a just-turned-16 son and a concern for that son getting in over his head with those sports cars come together? First a session at the Skip Barber Racing School; then, perhaps, a lifelong obsession. “Lucas had just turned 16. I had a couple of […]”
Ernie Francis Jr. crept up on his first victory in the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car A Championship, starting on the podium on Friday and moving up a spot in each subsequent race during a three-contest event at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ont. In the final race, Francis Jr. started his No. 98 […]”
LAKEVILLE, Conn. – U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Liam Dwyer will have a lot to commemorate when the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge visits Lime Rock Park from May 23-24. In addition to marking the Freedom Autosport driver’s homecoming race, the weekend is also the third anniversary of the I.E.D. explosion in Afghanistan that claimed Dwyer’s […]”
Miatas at Mazda Raceway has been an annual gathering of the MX-5 faithful for several years now; but in 2014 it takes on special significance for the 25th anniversary of Mazda’s sports car. Rick Weldon started the event after Mazda announced the 20th birthday party at Texas World Speedway. Centrally located, the track made […]”
With the Verizon IndyCar Series holding its inaugural Indy Grand Prix on a revised road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Mazda Road to Indy Series came along for the ride for a pair of races each. A new track that none of the drivers had seen before meant plenty of first-time winners. A […]”
Round Seven of the Mid-States Conference Championship for the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour was welcomed with great weather at High Plains Raceway for the Colorado Region May Daze weekend. Matt Reynolds, of Fair Oaks, Texas, went flag-to-flag for the Spec Miata win by nearly 13 seconds in his No. 74 Reynolds Brothers Racing Mazda Miata. […]”
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