Taz Harvey’s GT-2 RX-8
Former pro driver Harvey acquired an ex-SpeedSource RX-8 and wheels it in SCCA club racing
SpeedSource
Behind the Zoom – Jeff Braun
This week’s Behind the Zoom blog comes from Jeff Braun, the competition director at Mazda’s factory team, SpeedSource. Braun brings his immense expertise and experience from open-wheel, sports cars and more to make the Prototype team more competitive than ever before. This is my 55th year in racing… yep, the old guy. That means I […]”
Prototype: Big Gains Expected and Delivered
As they prepare for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Mazda and SpeedSource are making big strides with the SKYACTIV Diesel Prototypes. The TUDOR United SportsCar Championships begins with American endurance racing’s version of The Big Game – the Rolex 24 at Daytona. While the 24-hour race is important, it doesn’t necessarily tell the story of the […]”
Bring A Better Car
Whether it is over the winter or between events, Sylvain Tremblay always aims to bring a different car to the track than the last time. That doesn’t mean a new car, just an improved one.
20 Years of Prototype Technology
Sylvain Tremblay compares the 1991 Mazda 787B and the current Mazda SKYACTIV Diesel Prototype. There’s no doubt that racing technology, like every facet of technology, has advanced rapidly in the last two decades. Although to a casual observer, a prototype racer from the early ’90s may not look vastly different from a current closed-cockpit prototype […]”
Final 2014 Push for SKYACTIV Prototypes
SpeedSource and its innovative Mazda diesels hope to make an impression at COTA and Road Atlanta. As the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship heads into its final races, the SpeedSource Race Engineering team and its Mazda SKYACTIV Diesel Prototypes have only a couple more occasions to show the progress the team has made with the cars […]”
Tristan Nunez: The Active Life
If things had gone a bit differently in his life, instead of racing in the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Presented by Fresh From Florida, 18-year-old Tristan Nunez might have spent the middle of March preparing to compete in the Sony Open tennis tournament in Miami. But, fortunately for him and Mazda race fans, […]”
Great, but Tempered, Expectations
Good competitors know their strengths and play to them; great competitors know their weaknesses and work to fix them. After a fantastic season in Grand-Am GX, where the Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel won nine races and the manufacturers championship, expectations are high as Mazda and its race partner, SpeedSource Race Engineering, transition the same engine […]”
Prototype Tech
Mazda’s new LMP2-spec racer is a combination of proven technologies – Lola’s B12/80 coupe and the SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel engine from the Grand-Am GX program. Combining the two presents several challenges that SpeedSource Race Engineering and Mazda are facing head-on. They do so, however, in a rather unique environment full of unknowns. It is not […]”
Developing a Prototype
When Mazda announced it was going to go racing in the Prototype category of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, it seemed like a logical next step in its professional endurance sports car racing program. With the GX category going away under the new united championship born from the Grand-American Rolex Sports Car Series and the […]”
Joel Miller, Grand-Am Rookie of the Year
Joel Miller has won a few championships on his way up the motorsports ladder, beginning with a whole bunch of karting championships titles. Those include the IKF Junior Division North American championship in 2001, the Stars of Karting North American ICA championship and the 2007 SuperKarts USA SuperNationals Championship. That same year he also won […]”
Mazda TUSCC Driver Lineup Revealed
Mazda has long believed in promoting from within, including filling those rare ‘factory team’ driver slots. Mazda Motorsports will put some familiar faces in the driver’s seats of its pair of factory-backed SKYACTIV Technology-powered prototypes in the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The four drivers who delivered nine race wins and the 2013 Grand-Am GX […]”
Mazda Unveils SKYACTIV Diesel P2 program
Mazda will make its long-awaited return to the ranks of prototype racing in 2014 when it enters a pair of factory-backed P2 cars in the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. The Japanese brand will transition from 2013’s two-car Grand-Am Rolex GX Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D diesel program to compete in the TUDOR Championship’s new Prototype class, utilizing […]”
Mazda Bringing SKYACTIV-D to TUSCC Prototypes
Mazda Bringing Game-Changing SKYACTIV-D Smart Diesel Technology to TUDOR United SportsCar Championship for 2014 Mazda Motorsports Announces Return to Elite Racing Prototype Program November 14, 2013 (IRVINE, Calif.)—At Mazda, “Never Stop Challenging” isn’t just a catchphrase, it’s a company maxim. After nearly two years of planning, Mazda Motorsports will field a pair of factory-backed SKYACTIV-D […]”
A Strategy for Endurance
Endurance races used to be about which car was the most reliable and, when a car broke, how quickly it could be repaired. Now to win a race like the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring or the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, it’s more an exercise in speed; the races may […]”
Clean Diesel to Competition Diesel
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, […]”
Mazda Wins GX Title
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 […]”
Mazda 6 SKYACTIV-D first diesel to win at Indy
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 […]
ACCESSIBILITY