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Mazda will celebrate its racing success past and present at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion In 1979, Yojiro Terada, Yoshimi Katayama and Takashi Yorino drove an RX-7 to fifth overall and first in GTU in the 24 Hours of Daytona, beginning a long string of successes for the RX-7 in headline IMSA competition, including five straight […]

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Jonathan Bomarito Returns to the No. 70 Mazda for the 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Season. A driver with extensive history and success in Mazda-powered open-wheel cars and RX-8 sportscars will return to the Mazda SpeedSource team for the 2015 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. From 2010 through 2012, Jonathan Bomarito amassed 13 podium finishes and […]”

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Jonathan Bomarito Returns to No. 70 Mazda for 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Season October 29, 2014 (IRVINE, Calif.) — It was confirmed today that Jonathan Bomarito, a driver with extensive history and success in Mazda-powered open wheel cars and RX-8 sportscars, will return to the Mazda SpeedSource team for the 2015 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar […]”

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“I was an adrenaline junkie and maybe I raised him to be an adrenaline junkie. You just like living on the edge. Life seems more thrilling when you’re going fast,” says Craig Duerson of how he and son Hayden got into racing. The two are racing together in the Cooper Tires IMSA Prototype Lites powered […]”

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Dalton Sargeant is about as fresh as a racer gets. That’s fresh as in new, by the way. The 15-year-old high school student from Fort Lauderdale had his first two car races in the IMSA Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Powered by Mazda events during the 12 Hours of Sebring week, and walked away with two […]”

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The Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Powered by Mazda will have a seven-weekend, 14-race schedule in 2014. The ninth season for the series featuring smaller sports racing prototypes with Mazda engines will have doubleheader events at each venue. New to a challenging Cooper Tires Prototype Lites schedule are visits to Kansas Speedway and Watkins Glen International. […]”

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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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The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion regularly attracts the best cars and most famous drivers to its celebration of all things motorsports history at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, so it’s a natural for Mazda to bring some of the finest examples of its racing past to the event. This year’s gathering, held Aug. 16-18, was no […]

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