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It’s hard to imagine a racer having the kind of season that Matthew Brabham had in the 2013 Pro Mazda Championship. There have been few racing seasons in any series where the word “dominant” applied so readily. Brabham had 13 total wins, including a seven-race win streak that started in the second race of the […]”

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  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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As I was trying to write this blog entry to introduce myself and outline my career and my relationship with Mazda, I got stuck with a blank page for a couple of days. I really didn’t want to start out with the cliché: “Hi, my name is Peter Portante,” although I suppose I just did. […]”

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For many years, racers and fans alike decried the lack of a proper ladder system to guide young racers to the top of U.S. open wheel racing. Mazda, by consolidating and endorsing the Mazda Road to Indy, went a long way toward answering those complaints. There is now a clear path to the IZOD IndyCar […]”

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The spec formula idea has been around almost as long as the formula car – a single-make chassis with only one engine choice, often built and sealed by a single supplier. It’s an especially successful concept when that spec car is built around a reliable Mazda rotary engine. The Pro Mazda Championship’s beginnings date back […]”

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With only the doubleheader on the streets of Houston to go, Matthew Brabham has destroyed Pro Mazda Championship records on his way to winning the title and claiming the scholarship package from Mazda to race in the Indy Lights series. He clinched the championship with a commanding double win on the streets of Trois-Rivieres in […]”

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