Behind the Zoom: Sylvain Tremblay
This week’s racing action takes place at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (née Mosport) – a place that Sylvain Tremblay knows very well. He explains what makes the track so special to race drivers.
Sylvain Tremblay
Mazda Prototype Team Prepared for Sebring
Team’s strong performance gains expected to continue in 63rd annual 12-hour race. If optimism was high within the Mazda Prototype team prior to the season-opening 24-hour race at Daytona, it’s only higher for this week’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring featuring the TUDOR United SportsCar Series. The 63rd-annual Sebring race takes the green flag […]”
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 […]”
James Hinchcliffe to Drive Mazda Prototype
IndyCar driver joins Nunez, Bomarito and Tremblay in the driver lineup for the 2015 Rolex 24 in the No. 70 SKYACTIV Diesel Prototype. For the fourth consecutive year, IndyCar race winner James Hinchcliffe will join Mazda and the SKYACTIV Prototype driver lineup for the 2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Hinchcliffe will drive for the Mazda […]”
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.
Bomarito Returns to Mazda Motorsports
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 […]”
Bomarito Returns to Mazda Motorsports
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 […]”
BEHIND THE ZOOM ROAD ATLANTA
A turn-by-turn breakdown of the famed Georgia track with data, track maps, a setup guide and videos. For competitors in SCCA’s Regional-only classes such as Improved Touring, the American Road Race of Champions is the biggest event of the year, crowning unofficial national champs in those categories not eligible to compete at the Runoffs. To […]”
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 […]”
SKYACTIV Prototype Hits the Bricks
The number of racers who have raced, and won, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is small. While America’s most famous track has expanded its races and thus provided the opportunity for many more than a single individual per year to add their names to that roster, it’s still a bit of an exclusive club. Sylvain Tremblay […]”
SpeedSource History, Part 1
For SpeedSource Race Engineering principal Sylvain Tremblay, the racing bug bit, appropriately enough, with a Mazda. That Mazda was far from any racetrack, however. “If you rewind the clock, I was 13-years old riding my bicycle in my little town of Lighthouse Point, Florida,” Tremblay explains. “I came across a Champion Spark Plug RX-3 on […]”
Prototype Gains
For Mazda fans, watching the Mazda SKYACTIV-D Prototypes in the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship has been a bit painful. While the cars are beautiful and everyone knew that 2014 was a development year for the program, watching the cars qualify behind even the GT cars was difficult. But, then, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, […]”
Every Mile a Data Point
Mazda’s SKYACTIV Technology helped its all-new Clean Diesel-powered sports racing Prototype go wheel to wheel with some of the world’s fastest sports cars at Daytona International Speedway, as they tackled the grueling demands of this past weekend’s 52nd Rolex 24 at Daytona. The two Mazda SKYACTIV Prototypes started the 2014 running of the endurance classic […]”
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 […]”
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 […]”
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 […]
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