Club Racing

  As Mazda fans worldwide marked the 25th anniversary of the MX-5 Miata’s debut at the Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 9, 1989, some Mazda racers in Louisiana were celebrating in their own special way – by pushing their MX-5s across the finish line first. At the first rounds of the SCCA Mid-States Majors Tour […]”

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  The MX-5 Miata was introduced 25 years ago On Feb. 9, 1989, the world was introduced to the all-new Mazda MX-5 Miata at the Chicago Auto Show. A few months later, it was named as one of the five “World’s Best Cars” by Road & Track and never looked back. Twenty-five years later, MX-5 […]”

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Scholarship up for Grabs Mazda Motorsports is once again supporting Project Yellow Light, a scholarship competition designed to encourage teens to embrace safe driving habits and bring awareness to the dangers of distracted driving. College and high school students can produce videos designed to persuade their peers not to drive distracted. The videos can be […]”

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Rob Huffmaster has a bit of experience with the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. But the car he drove to the 2013 Super Touring Lite National Championship has more titles than he does. Huffmaster drove the Mazda RX-8 to the 2007 Touring 3 National Championship victory when the Runoffs was held at Heartland Park Topeka. His […]”

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In the first SCCA Majors tour race on the West Coast, a Cal Club event at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., seven Mazda racers swept the weekend in their respective classes. The Majors events include a 30-minute race on Saturday, and a 17-lap (or 40 minute) race on Sunday. A drafting contest in Spec […]”

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Winning a National Championship is one thing. It may be even better when it’s a complete surprise when you get into impound. Jason Kohler had just that experience at the NASA National Championship at Miller Motorsports Park last September. Competing in a Miata in the Performance Touring E class, he thought he was chasing the […]”

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The Formula Car Challenge, which features three classes of Mazda-powered formula car racing in several regional series across the country, announced the schedule for its premier West Coast series and National Championship event at Sonoma Raceway. The series will race at Portland International Raceway, Thunderhill Raceway Park, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and a variety of […]”

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It was billed as the ultimate grudge match – dealers vs. factory guys in identically prepared Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Diesels over 25 hours. “I don’t think any factory is crazy enough to come up with a challenge like this, other than Mazda,” says Taz Harvey, driver of the No. 55 Mazda6 for the dealers and one […]”

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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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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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  Most of the young drivers who made it to the final rounds of the Mazda Club Racer Shootout have some experience with data. They’ve seen it, they’ve used it and usually understand it. For some experiencing data acquisition for the first time, though, it can be a little confusing. It shouldn’t be, says Eric […]”

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“It’s kind of a black art, getting into professional racing; nobody really seems to have a for-sure answer for what to do and how to make a name for yourself. This is another way for us to do that,” says Adam Poland, winner of the Teen Mazda Challenge championship in Texas. The 22-year old from […]”

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For more than a decade, the winning trend in the Sports Car Club of America’s C Sports Racing category has been to rebody a Formula Atlantic car to meet the sports racing rules. The Formula Atlantic cars are fast, and adding the bodywork tends to make them quicker. Usually those who make the conversion use […]”

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Darryl Wills may not have raced everything, but as he rattles off the list – flat track, motocross, offroad and road racing on two wheels; sprint cars, drag racing, offroad and sports cars on four – it sure seems like it. So it seems almost unlikely that a Formula Mazda, spotted during a visit to […]”

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  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 […]”

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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 […]”

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  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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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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 […]”

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