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Video: 4-Rotor 1991 FC RX-7 IMSA GTO Returns To Long Beach
Over the weekend, the Long Beach Grand Prix celebrated the 50th anniversary of IMSA by hosting cars from its popular GTO class from the 80’s and early 90’s for this year’s vintage race.
Video: POV Test Drive Of The 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata GT
Ride with Winding Road Magazine in this POV Video of the 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata GT with its 2.0-liter four-cylinder SKYACTIV-G engine that produces 181 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 151 lb/ft torque at 4,000 rpm.
Going For Glory One Hour At A Time
It’s no secret that Mazda Motorsports plays an integral role in the creation of a racing culture that provides opportunities, through a ladder system, for drivers to enter the field in amateur events and chart a course towards a successful professional racing career. This Friday, December 7, four drivers will have a chance to wrangle in one of those opportunities.
Win A $68,000 Mazda Global MX-5 Cup Car
Like most of you, we are not big fans, or fans at all, of cancer. A good friend and racing industry veteran was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer, and, as you probably have experienced, it has been a rough trip. It is tough for the victim and tough for friends and family. Lemons of Love is a charity that aims to make the road a little less bumpy for victims of cancer.
Video: TT MX-5 Rocks It At Dominion
In this video, we run with Scott Merker in his NC MX-5 around Dominion Raceway in Thornburg, VA. The NC MX-5 is one of our favorite platforms because the…
Video: POV Drive Of 2018 Mazda6 2.5 Turbo
A very nice car that badly needed more torque. Here it is with 310 lb-ft of grunt. MSRP: $34,750; Price as tested: $36,140 Skyactiv-G 2.5T; Horsepower: 227; Torque: 310 lb-ft; 225/45/19 all-season tires; MPG: 23 city / 31 highway / 26 combined; Curb weight: 3,560 lbs; Fuel tank capacity: 16.4 gallons
Mazda Withdraws From Road To Indy After Long Success
It is a little difficult to remember a time before the Mazda Road To Indy, even though the successful ladder system only gained Mazda support in 2010. The combination of USF2000, ProMazda, and Indy Lights has been key to the careers of Josef Newgarden, 2017 IndyCar champion…
Mazda Global MX-5 Cup Adds New Class-Within-Class
The Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup Series presented by BF Goodrich has added a new class of competition to its already updated and expanded system of competition.
92-Horsepower Miata Shows Who’s Boss In ChampCar
In this video we see Winding Road Team TFB driver Mark Drennan demonstrate that power isn’t everything.
At The Track: NA Miatas Can Now Run In Vintage Series
In our Guide To Vintage Racing we have pointed out that vintage sanctioning bodies like SVRA have generally twisted their rules to keep Spec Miatas at bay.
Getting Started: A Racing Video For Your Friends Who Should Be Racers
If you’ve been a driver in wheel to wheel competition, you are sometimes confused by the gap between your experience and your friends’ limited understanding of why racing is great.
Spec Miata: Justin Hille Wins Spirit Of Mazda Award
During the day, Justin Hille works at Roush Industries. On the weekends, he is one of the premier Spec Miata racers in the Northern Conference of the SCCA, where he won the conference championship this year.
Preview: 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF
When Masahiro Moro, President and CEO of Mazda North American Operations took the stage at this year’s New York Auto Show to unveil the new MX-5 RF, he summed up how Mazda differentiates itself from other automakers when he delivered this gem: ”Other companies have become quite successful by not caring if their cars are boring or not.”
WR TV: 1994 MX-5 Miata vs. 2016 MX-5 Miata GT POV Comparison
I’ll start off by saying that you can’t go wrong with either one of these cars. Because honestly, it’s tough to say which one is more fun to drive. Ultimately, power and refinement set these two generations apart.
Winding Road Racing Mazda Race Car Builds
Winding Road Racing builds race cars and tunes performance cars for the track. View our Mazda race car builds and installations, including…
Racecar Profile: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Cup
For first time ever Mazda Motorsports, in a collaborative effort with Long Road Racing, has developed and will be selling race-ready MX-5 Cup cars straight from the company’s factory in Hiroshima. The all-new ND-generation racers will be delivered with sealed motors and encrypted race-spec ECUs to prevent tampering, as the Cup cars also usher in Mazda’s new global racing series that will be held in North America, Europe and Asia, all in identical spec-tuned versions of the new Cup car.
Driven: 2016 Mazda MX-5
The rollout of Mazda’s all-new fourth generation sports car has been an exercise in patience. Years of anticipation led into a series of teasers that often provided little detail, if any. But when the automaker did start to roll out specifics, as brief as they were, it became obvious that Mazda was well aware of just how important this car was to performance enthusiasts on and off the track.
WR TV: Mazda RX-8 Drift Car Ridealong With Mike Feiock
This week we’re riding shotgun in Formula D competitor Mike Feiock’s Mazda RX-8 drift car at the No Star Bash 2015 at Gingerman Raceway. Mike’s rotary-powered RX-8 cranks out between 550 and 600 horsepower depending on the setup and tune he’s running on a particular day.
NAIAS 2015: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Walkaround
Get a closer look at the upcoming all-new fourth generation MX-5 as Multimedia Editor Chris Amos spends some time with the upcoming ragtop at week’s North American International Auto Show. According to Mazda, the new MX-5 sheds some 220 pounds from the outgoing car, and is “the most compact of any generation MX-5 so far.”
The Three Most Common Race Driving Misconceptions
I’m constantly amazed by the opinions that people in motorsport have, many of which are just plain wrong, or at least a bit off-base. That’s why I was so glad that Mazda factory driver, and coach, Tom Long, tackled the topic of misconceptions (a topic that I’ve often thought about writing about). While what Tom writes about may go against what you’ve heard others say, I can assure you that he nails it. -Ross
Classic: Mazda 787B
Winning an enduro on the international stage was a dream for Mazda from the moment Kenichi Yamamoto eureka’ed the production rotary engine into existence. The Mazda 787B was the pinnacle of its evolution, the first and only car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a non-reciprocating engine in the race’s 90-year history.
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