Two Mazda Prototypes Return at COTA
Both Prototypes will compete with diesel power at Circuit of the Americas; Mazda MX-5 teams and drivers also battle for Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge title.
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Behind the Zoom: Tom Long
This weekend, the Prototypes are quiet, but Tom Long will be at Lime Rock Park in a dramatic role reversal as he goes from race car driver to race strategist.
Liam Dwyer Story on ESPN Sunday
Show on wounded Marine and Mazda racecar driver airs at 10 a.m. Sunday on ESPN.
Four MX-5s for Continental Series
Freedom Autosport and CJ Wilson Racing are joined by Alara Racing in Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge Street Touring. The 2015 IMSA Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge season gets under way on Friday as a prelude to the Rolex 24 at Daytona TUDOR United SportsCar Championship race. Mazda is looking to improve on last year’s strong results, […]”
Liam Dwyer Enlists with Mazda Motorsports
Liam Dwyer shifting from active duty with the U.S. Marines to full-time racer driving an MX-5 in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. After scoring a victory in only his second professional race, Liam Dwyer is joining Mazda as a full-time racer in the 2015 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Dwyer and Tom Long to co-drive their […]”
Meet Staff Sgt. Liam Dwyer
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 […]”
Another Mazda Sweep at Lime Rock
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 […]”
MX-5 Miatas Sweep Lime Rock Podium
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 […]”
Lime Rock a Homecoming for Freedom Autosport’s Dwyer
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 […]”
Freedom Leads Mazda 1-2-3 at Mazda Raceway
Freedom Autosport won its fourth consecutive Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner victory at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, with Randy Pobst and Andrew Carbonell taking their second consecutive win in 2014. It came down to a three-way battle between the Freedom Autosport No. 26 Mazda MX-5 driven by Pobst and Carbonell and the two […]”
Traffic Jam
Most Club Racers will experience traffic in every race. With multiple classes on the circuit at once, racers are going to be passed by or be passing other cars in different classes on a regular basis. A Spec Miata or STL driver might be on track with Performance Touring A or Touring 2 cars, meaning […]”
Meet Randy Pobst
One might wonder what a driver with six SCCA Solo National Championships, two SCCA Club Racing National Championships, four World Challenge GT championships, plus two Rolex 24 at Daytona class victories, is doing in a Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner Mazda MX-5. If he has his way – and he thinks he […]”
Two MX-5 Teams for Continental Challenge
With the excitement surrounding a brand-new sports car series in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and Mazda’s participation in the Prototype division, it’s easy to overlook the continuing and ever-improving competition in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Two teams, both running MX-5s, return to contest the Street Tuner class in the endurance series for lightly […]”
Transforming Road Car to Racer
“We start with a brand-new MX-5 chassis,” says Glenn Long, the principal of Freedom Autosport as he explains how his team turns a road car into a winning Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge competitor in the Street Tuner category. “The car is very well engineered as it sits. So things like the engine location – […]”
Mazda Wins GX Title
Mazda scored its ninth GX win of the final Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season with its Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel racer at Lime Rock Park as the season came to a close. The win, scored by the No.70 Castrol Edge SpeedSource Mazda6 driven by Sylvain Tremblay and Tom Long, gave Mazda the manufacturers title […]”
Freedom Autosport Wins at Lime Rock
Joel Miller and Tristan Nunez pulled double duty in Grand-Am competition at Lime Rock, racing not only in the Rolex Sports Car Series GX class in the Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel, but also running an MX-5 in the Continental Tire Sports Car Series race on Friday afternoon. Miller and Nunez won the Street Tuner class. […]”
Freedom One-Two at Mazda Raceway
It’s no secret that some tracks favor certain cars and drivers, and vice-versa. Some circuits are handling tracks, some are horsepower tracks, and some have elements of both. Sometimes a team will hit a sweet spot at a particular racetrack and find something that no one else has. Still, to finish one-two at a given […]”
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