Grand-Am

  Mazda knows its rotaries. Years of racing various versions showed the company and its racing teams how to make them powerful and darn near bulletproof. It’s the sort of proven, comfortable technology that enabled SpeedSource to have so much success with its RX-8s in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in the GT category, […]”

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The just-completed 2013 Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Series season may not have gone quite the way Pierre Kleinubing would have liked. However, if a driver could win them all, it wouldn’t be racing…and it wouldn’t be very interesting. In 2012, though, Kleinubing did win it all in the Street Tuner-class i-Moto MAZDASPEED3. Not every […]”

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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 […]”

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A diesel first ran at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 1931 Indianapolis 500, becoming the first car to run the race without a pit stop. Freddie Agabashian gave diesel engines their best shot in 1952, capturing the pole but failing to finish the race. It wasn’t until more than 50 years later that a diesel […]

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