Derrick Ambrose – Mazda Motorsports

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Two Mazda Winners in 25 Hours

The Grueling NASA 25 Hours of Thunderhill featured victories for two generations of Miatas Race teams have once again taken on the challenge of racing twice around the clock plus an hour in the chill of Northern California December. Just finishing the NASA 25 Hours of Thunderhill is an accomplishment, let alone winning. Two Mazda […]

The Contenders: Touring classes

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More Seat Time

Touring 4 racer Derrick Ambrose develops race craft through Spec Miata Race craft is key to winning, and to develop race craft, there’s no replacement for seat time in real racing situations. But for racer and CorkSport Performance co-owner Derrick Ambrose, opportunities to develop that race craft were limited with his Touring 4 SCCA race […]

SCCA Western Conference Crowns Champs

Six Mazda racers among newly minted titlists as SCCA’s conference wraps up its season The SCCA Western Conference U.S. Majors Tour wrapped up a couple of weeks ago at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Washington, with several Mazda drivers earning conference titles. Because many of the California drivers didn’t venture that far north, several of […]

Western Conference Majors Wraps up at the Ridge

SCCA Western Conference titles to be wrapped up this weekend The SCCA Western Conference U.S. Majors Tour finale takes place this weekend at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Wash., and several Mazda drivers are in contention for Conference titles in their respective classes. Being the northernmost round of the Conference series, and with most […]

Finding a Niche

Enthusiast and racer Derrick Ambrose has made tuning Mazdas his day job

Joey Jordan: Groomed in Spec Miata

Joey Jordan had an impressive run in Touring Car B at the end of the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge season; he attributes much of his performance to racing in Spec Miata.

Track near Palm Springs hosts Rounds Three and Four of Western Conference, with eight Mazda winners.

Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, a 17-turn, 2.68-mile track in Desert Center, Calif., hosted its first Majors races, Rounds Three and Four the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour Western Conference. Saturday’s on-track events included 15-minute qualifying sessions, divided into seven race groups, for the 25 National Championship Runoffs-eligible classes what were present. Following the mid-day lunch break, those same seven race groups competed in separate 30-minute sprint races. On Sunday, each race was 20 laps.
As this was the first trip to the venue for the Majors Tour, new lap records were on the chopping block. A total of 13 lap records were reset over the two-day race weekend.
Dan Erickson, of Chandler, Arizona, took home a narrow 0.692-second victory over Doug Nelson in Formula Mazda on Saturday. Nelson was the better of the two drivers during the qualifying session, but Erickson drove his No. 6 Brawndo Formula Mazda to the eventual win. Larry Mason was the Sunday winner in FM.
Clement Lee, of San Diego, California, cruised to an atypically large margin of victory in Spec Miata on Saturday. Lee qualified his No. 33 RM Autosports Mazda Miata in third, but did what he needed to do to lead the field to the line.
On Sunday, Steven Powers, of Mesa, Arizona, turned the tables on Lee. After finishing second to Lee the day before, Powers came home first in his No. 145 Amerifirst Financial Mazda Miata. Lee finished the feature race in second.
Derrick Ambrose (Mazda2) and Mike Henderson (RX-7) were double winners in B-Spec and GT-3, respectively.
The next two rounds of the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour Western Conference Championship will be held at Thunderhill Raceway Park on April 11-12.

SCCA Western Conference Majors Tour
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, Calif.
March 21—22, 2015
Round Three Mazda Winners

Class	Driver	Hometown	Car
Chuckwalla B-Spec	Derrick Ambrose	Vancouver, Wash.	Mazda2
Formula Mazda	Dan Erickson	Chandler, Ariz.	Formula Mazda*
GT-3	Mike Henderson	Alpine, Calif.	Mazda RX-7
Spec Miata	Clement Lee	San Diego, Calif.	Mazda Miata

Round Four Mazda Winners

ClassDriverHometownCar

B-Spec	Derrick Ambrose	Vancouver, Wash.	Mazda2*
Formula Mazda	Larry Mason	Burbank, Calif.	Formula Mazda
E Production	Anthony Jimerson	Benicia, Calif.	Mazda RX-7
GT-1	Richard Gray	Moorpark, Calif.	Mazda RX-7
GT-3	Mike Henderson	Alpine, Calif.	Mazda RX-7*
Spec Miata	Steven Powers	Mesa, Ariz.	Mazda Miata

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SCCA Majors Open on West Coast

Mazda racers take Touring, Production and Prototype victories at Auto Club Speedway. After watching their fellow competitors in the Southeast get started a week ago, the SCCA Western Conference Majors Tour raced for the first time in 2015, opening the year at Auto Club Speedway. Seven race groups ran on the 21-turn, 2.8-mile circuit that […]”

Rebuild at the Runoffs

Rebuilding a racecar after a massive wreck isn’t a task for the faint of heart, especially in the space of a few days at a racetrack. Derrick Ambrose saved his Runoffs week doing just that. The Runoffs hadn’t even officially started, and already Derrick Ambrose was facing a racer’s nightmare. “The first session, the car […]”

Majors at Thunderhill

With an overflowing paddock and trailers parked outside the gate, the first SCCA U.S. Majors Tour event at Thunderhill Raceway Park opened Saturday under blue skies for Rounds Five and Six of the Western Conference Majors Tour. The event featured the usual format of 30-minute timed races on Saturday and 16-lap or 40-minute races on […]”

Mazda Drivers Win in Inde Majors

The second event of the SCCA Western Conference Majors Tour took place this past weekend at the Inde Motorsports Ranch, located just outside of Wilcox, Ariz. The four-year-old facility offers pristine support buildings and new on-track challenges for many competitors who have not run here before. The 18-turn, 2.22-mile track sits at 4000 feet above […]”