Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires champ beat drivers from throughout the Americas in a shootout to move on to world-wide competition. Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires champion Kenton Koch, of Glendora, Calif., will advance to the next stage of the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy after winning the Americas shootout […]”
I’m Kenton Koch, the 2014 Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires champion. The Mazda ladder and scholarships helped me get here. 2014 was an extremely successful year for me. I was able to accomplish something that four years ago I thought would never happen – I was able to win the 2014 Mazda MX-5 […]”
Sebastian Landy wins second race at Road Atlanta; Drake Kemper claims Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge title. Sebastian Landy, of Great Falls, Va., completed the weekend sweep at Road Atlanta after winning Round 12 of the SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires. Kenton Koch, of Glendora, Calif., and Joey Bickers, of […]”
Sebastian Landy wins penultimate round at Road Atlanta while Kenton Koch claims the Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires title. Sebastian Landy won the battle, but Kenton Koch won the war. Landy, of Great Falls, Va., captured the top spot in Round 11 of the SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich […]”
Young Mazda-powered racers earn Team USA Scholarship to compete in prestigious UK races. After intense deliberations, Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda Rookie of the Year Aaron Telitz of Birchwood, Wis., and Skip Barber Summer Series standout Michai Stephens of Evanston, Ill., have been selected as winners of prestigious Team USA Scholarships for 2014. […]”
Six Team USA Scholarship Candidates Display Their Talents at Auto Club Speedway. A wide variety of accomplished insiders from the world of motorsports have a tough task ahead of them as they work toward naming two winners from a group of six candidates who auditioned at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., on Monday for […]”
Six candidates compete for opportunity to compete in international formula car racing. Two Mazda scholarship racers are among six young motorsports standouts to be invited to participate in the Team USA Scholarship Shootout at Auto Club Speedway in California. Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich points leader Kenton Koch and USF2000 Rookie of the Year […]”
Mazda Drivers and Champions Supporting their Roots Beginning today, a new feature on mazdamotorsports.com called BEHIND THE ZOOM will bring Mazda’s champions and professionals onto your screen to break down the tracks on which you race to help you be better. To name a few: Road Atlanta, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Sonoma Raceway, and VIRginia […]”
Kenton Koch discovers drafting at Road America can be both helpful and cruel. Road America is known for its intense racing due to its mix of fast corners, insane drafting and long straights; it’s North America’s Nurburgring. In the Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires, these cars create a very big hole in the […]”
A lot has happened since the beginning of the season. We are halfway through the season which consists of 12 races and I am currently in the championship lead with a 55-point gap to second with six wins and two seconds. Heading into the season I was optimistic about where I would stand relative to […]”
Sweeping both SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires races on the streets of Houston wasn’t enough for Kenton Koch. He put the exclamation point on the statement he made in Texas with a double victory at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ont., over the weekend. Koch, of Glendora, Calif., led […]”
As a development series attracting young racers who have their eyes on the faster ranks of sports car racing, the Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich has a lot of turnover. That means a large crop of fresh rookies each season. Sometimes those rookies are getting their first taste of professional racing. Whether they are […]”
For the first time this season, Kenton Koch and John Dean II didn’t split wins during a Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires doubleheader. At the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston, Koch, of Glendora, Calif., took the victory in both races and took over the points lead in the process. In the […]”
Modern auto racing is a team sport. While most of the competing is done by a single driver at the controls, there are countless hours of work put in behind the scenes, away from the racetrack and the crowd. Those hours spent away from the limelight make it possible for the driver to put in […]”
Gumby didn’t drive a racecar. So seeing the lovable claymation character at a racetrack is a bit unusual. But when Kenton Koch won the second of two SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in May, Gumby was right there on the podium with him. As […]”
Continuing the pattern they set at Sebring, John Dean and Kenton Koch split the two Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This time they reversed the order, with Dean taking the first victory and Koch the second. The teams had a very short turnaround time, because Round […]”
John Dean, of Sebring, Fla., scored an emotional victory in front of family, friends and supporters in Round Two of the SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires as part of the 62nd Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. Thursday’s winner, Kenton Koch, of Glendora, Calif., […]”
Rookie Kenton Koch, of Glendora, Calif., started his bid for the 2014 SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires Championship on the right foot, winning Round 1 at Sebring International Raceway as part of the 62nd Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. Hometown favorite John Dean […]”
Each new season of the SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich® Tires brings new contenders for the championship and the Mazda SportsCar Racing Academy scholarship that goes with it. As the series prepares for its season opener this week at Sebring International Raceway, there are several new faces that have their eyes […]”
Last season in the Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge was one to remember for me; I learned more than I ever expected to that season. The part that was most beneficial, in my eyes, last season was that I had to set my own car up. Prior to 2013, I had spent some time on […]”
The old question of whether racing drivers are athletes ought to have been settled by now. Gone are the days when some of NASCAR’s best used to light up a cigarette during caution periods and drivers were out of shape. These days, training is everything in order to get every last bit of performance out […]”
Elliot Skeer of Vista, Calif., won the season finale of the SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup on Friday at Road Atlanta, but it wasn’t enough to take the championship away from Christian Szymczak, who finished fourth. Szymczak, who finished third in the Thursday half of the doubleheader, only needed a top-six finish […]”
The SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup rolls into Atlanta about as close as a championship could be. That was either helped or hindered by the cancellation of the Houston race after Dario Franchitti’s IndyCar Series accident damaged the catchfence. Christian Szymczak could have extended his lead further, or Elliot Skeer could have […]”
Mazda Motorsports has a blockbuster weekend coming up on the streets of Texas’s largest city during the Shell Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston. The SCCA Pro Racing Pirelli World Challenge Championships wrap up their season, two Mazda-powered steps on the Mazda Road to Indy ladder have their finales and the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup […]”
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