The Miata is one of the most popular and successful cars in autocross and SCCA Solo. Light and nimble, it’s a great car for maneuvering around a tight course marked out by traffic cones. Early cars can also be quite inexpensive, and Craig Naylor’s Street Touring S Miata is a perfect example. “I bought the […]”
Jesse Prather explains what a good set of double-adjustable shocks can do for a racer and help him or her tune the car. Adjustable shock absorbers, or dampers if you prefer, are fairly commonplace at all levels of racing. Most are double adjustable for compression and rebound, some are adjustable for compression only, and the […]”
With more than 300 cars on the entry list for the Sports Car Club of America’s BFGoodrich® Tires Atlanta Super Tour at the scenic Road Atlanta, close races were a lock. It happened, and what transpired on Saturday at Road Atlanta for Round Five of the Eastern Conference Majors Tour, in many classes, was the […]”
The first National Solo event of the year, the Tire Rack SCCA Solo Dixie Championship Tour at South Georgia Motorsports Park on March 15-16, boasted a full entry list of 285 participants. While the weather was good for most of the weekend, it played havoc with the end of Sunday’s competition. With severe weather rolling […]”
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 […]”
You’ve built your racecar to be as aerodynamic as possible. Whether you start with an RX-7, Miata, RX-8, MX-5 or something else, you’ve got a pretty good basis and you’ve worked within the rules to make it move through the air as efficiently as it can with the help of air dams and spoilers. But […]”
Mazda has launched a Web site to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the debut of the Mazda MX-5 (known as Roadster in Japan). The Web site aims to deepen the bond between Mazda and its customers all over the world and express gratitude for the support the model has received over the years. The site […]”
Start on pole, lead every lap, win the race. Jim Drago got the first and last parts of the instructions for dominance correct, but he seemed to forget the middle part during his quest for a second straight SCCA Spec Miata National Championship. “The week had gone pretty much flawlessly,” Drago says of the 2013 […]”
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 […]”
For Spec Miata racers running the original 1990-’93 car, there are few options available for a limited slip differential. The OEM viscous limited slip is one, but is difficult to find. So is the Mazda Competition Clutch Type, which hasn’t been produced in years. Updating to the 1.8-liter Torsen unit is an alternative, but the […]”
As Mazda fans worldwide marked the 25th anniversary of the MX-5 Miata’s debut at the Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 9, 1989, some Mazda racers in Louisiana were celebrating in their own special way – by pushing their MX-5s across the finish line first. At the first rounds of the SCCA Mid-States Majors Tour […]”
The MX-5 Miata was introduced 25 years ago On Feb. 9, 1989, the world was introduced to the all-new Mazda MX-5 Miata at the Chicago Auto Show. A few months later, it was named as one of the five “World’s Best Cars” by Road & Track and never looked back. Twenty-five years later, MX-5 […]”
Winning a National Championship is one thing. It may be even better when it’s a complete surprise when you get into impound. Jason Kohler had just that experience at the NASA National Championship at Miller Motorsports Park last September. Competing in a Miata in the Performance Touring E class, he thought he was chasing the […]”
During the course of any given racing championship, there will be many champions. But only one can claim to be the first, and in the case of the Rocky Mountain/Central Division of the Teen Mazda Challenge, that person is Zac Munro. Munro bookended the season with wins in the series within NASA Spec Miata races […]”
Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesels Show Well in Debut The Venn diagram that best showcases Mazda Motorsports is the overlap between endurance racing and club racing. That overlap was showcased on a freezing cold weekend at the longest endurance race in America, the National Auto Sport Association (NASA)’s US Air Force 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Of […]”
“It’s kind of a black art, getting into professional racing; nobody really seems to have a for-sure answer for what to do and how to make a name for yourself. This is another way for us to do that,” says Adam Poland, winner of the Teen Mazda Challenge championship in Texas. The 22-year old from […]”
Matt Schultz had already been racing karts for 18 years when he decided it was time to go car racing. When he did, he jumped straight into Spec Miata. Six years later, he’s the NASA Spec Miata National Champion. “I started to research the classes, and I felt Spec Miata was a pretty good […]”
History has shown that, even with a given set of rules, there is no one right way to build a racecar. With enough latitude, designers will find unique solutions to solve a common problem. Witness things like six-wheeled Tyrell F1 cars, turbine-powered Indy cars or even diesel-powered sports cars. In SCCA’s Production category, a common […]”
SCCA RallyCross – although not to be confused with the form of RallyCross where four cars compete side by side on a dirt and asphalt course with jumps and such – is hard on a car. Throwing a car sideways through mud, dirt or snow can be tough on a machine. Yet Jayson Woodruff’s Miata […]”
There’s no doubt racing is fun and challenging at any level. But sometimes you just want to go faster. In many forms of racing, there are numerous things you can do to go faster, most of which cost money. Maybe a lot of money. If you’re racing a class like Spec Miata, though, there’s not […]”
The Miata isn’t typically the sort of car one pictures tearing around in a dirt-and-grass field in Oklahoma. Yet several drivers did exactly that and two of them claimed RallyCross National Championships in the process. The Sports Car Club of America had its final championship event of 2013 with the RallyCross National Championship at […]”
Every year, the Sports Car Club of America’s top Club Racers gather at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs to prove who is the best of the best. The 50th edition took place this past weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., with a near-record entry of more than 700 cars. Out of 28 SCCA […]”
After a day of practice and three days of qualifying, the 2013 SCCA National Championship Runoffs races are ready to get underway at Road America for the 50th Anniversary edition. Eight Mazda drivers claimed pole positions for the races, including those in all-Mazda or Mazda-powered classes. All pole times were set on Tuesday, as rain […]”
The 2013 SCCA Tire Rack Solo National Champions were crowned at Lincoln, Neb., on Sept. 3-6, and nine Mazda drivers were among them. The Solo National Championships are the culmination of the Sports Car Club of America’s Solo program each year that includes ProSolo, Championship Tour and Match Tour events, plus hundreds of regional events […]”
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