RX-8
What Are You Waiting For?
Have you been dreaming of racing, or just pushing your Mazda to the limits? Get off that couch and find an event – it’s easier than you think
SCCA’s Championship Tour Begins
SCCA’s autocross series kicks off at South Georgia Motorsports Park this weekend
Don Knowles: Legend in a Mazda
Longtime racer finds success in Touring 4 in a 12-year-old RX-8 Don Knowles has a long and storied history in production-based sports car racing. A six-time SCCA national champion, he also has a number of wins in professional racing, mostly in the Escort Endurance Series. Knowles holds the world record for 24-hour race victories; he’s […]
Close Battles Between Mazdas at Devens Championship Tour
SCCA national autocross event in Massachusetts sees Billy Davis take overall top index time The 2017 Tire Rack Devens Championship Tour continued the SCCA Solo season with overcast skies and some leftover moisture from the previous day. A number of people were coming to Devens for the first time, while others returned after a number […]
Taz Harvey’s GT-2 RX-8
Former pro driver Harvey acquired an ex-SpeedSource RX-8 and wheels it in SCCA club racing
Balancing Modern Mazdas with a Swaybar
Pro Parts USA and Mazda Motorsports help RX-8 and NC MX-5 drivers fine-tune handling via swaybars
Lance Stewart: Returning to his Roots
1990 IMSA GTU champ still enjoys the thrill of racing, and of racing a Mazda.
Want to Affordably Drive on a Racetrack?
SCCA’s Track Night in America Makes getting on track easy and relatively inexpensive. With this coupon code, you can make it even cheaper through July 31.
Solo Car Build: The RX-8 Guide for DSP
The guide to converting a Series 1 (2004 – 2008) or Series 2 (2009 – 2011) RX-8 into a D-Street Prepared autocrossing beast.
Go Autocrossing!
For getting your feet wet in motorsports, it’s tough to beat autocross. It’s fun, safe, low key and requires minimum investment.
Double Mazda Victory in PWC
Ernie Francis Jr. and Elivan Goulart take Touring Car and TCA victories in Pirelli World Challenge at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.
Strong Mazda Field for PWC Touring Car
Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car and Touring Car B kick off their season this weekend at Circuit of the Americas. The Pirelli World Challenge is looking stronger than ever, with big fields and several standalone races where the series is the headliner, such as the season opener at Circuit of the Americas in Austin this […]”
Racecar Build: NASA PT RX-8
Warren Dexter and family’s Performance Touring RX-8 has been through several iterations, but in each one it’s their go-to when they want to go fast. The Dexter family loves its Spec Miatas. Father Zane and brothers Warren and Dylan love duking it out on their home tracks in the heart of America, such as Motorsports […]”
Mazda Takes Two Wins in 25 Hours
Team RDR and RJ Racing take the E2 and E3 victories, respectively; Factory Guys claim battle over dealers. After 25 hours of racing, the 12th edition of America’s longest endurance sports car race is in the books. While no Mazda was in contention for overall victory at the NASA 25 Hours of Thunderhill presented by […]”
Two Paths, One Destination
Joshua Allan and Lee Papageorge have taken two different routes to NASA’s PTD class, both with positive results. For any given destination there are multiple paths. Some are more scenic, some are more interesting and some are just, well, faster. Joshua Allan and Lee Papageorge both race Mazdas in the National Autosport Association’s (NASA) Performance […]”
Marc Monnar: Into the Unknown
SCCA Solo competitor took his RX-8 where few others dared tread – right into the Street Prepared category. Marc Monnar didn’t listen to the naysayers. If he did, he never would have built an RX-8 to compete in the Street Prepared category in SCCA Solo. If he did, he would have ended up with a Street […]”
Mazda Champion: Rachel Kerswill
Rachel Kerswill is the 2014 SCCA Solo National Championship champion in C Street Ladies. Rachel Kerswill has been to two SCCA Solo National Championships. The fact that her winning percentage is now at 50 percent isn’t that unusual. The unusual part is that she went from worst to first. Granted, there were a few years […]”
Eight Mazda Solo National Champs
Mazda drivers claim titles in SCCA’s championship event for autocrossers. The 2014 SCCA Solo National Championships have wrapped up four days of competition at Lincoln Airpark in Lincoln, Neb. A record 1185 competitors tackled two different courses, with about half taking to the two courses on Tuesday-Wednesday and the bulk of the eight Mazda Solo […]”
SCCA Solo Season Underway
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 […]”
Cheating the Wind
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 Champion: Rob Huffmaster
Rob Huffmaster has a bit of experience with the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. But the car he drove to the 2013 Super Touring Lite National Championship has more titles than he does. Huffmaster drove the Mazda RX-8 to the 2007 Touring 3 National Championship victory when the Runoffs was held at Heartland Park Topeka. His […]”
A Continent Apart
It may seem silly to compare the N.A.S.A. US Air Force 25 Hours of Thunderhill with the Rolex 24 at Daytona. One is a club race held on a club-owned track in the middle of Northern California agricultural land while the other is a professional race with an illustrious history at one of America’s most […]”
ACCESSIBILITY