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Championships at Roebling and the Road to the 24
This past weekend was the Southeast Division championship for the SCCA, which is known as the Southeast Invitation Challenge (SIC). It’s held at Roebling Road Raceway every year – I remember competing at the SIC in 2001 in Showroom Stock. It was my first championship...
Soggy Season Finale at Road Atlanta
We started the week of Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta with rain during the promoter test day – talk about foreshadowing for the week ahead! The test day goal for me was to work with the Global Mazda MX-5 Cup cars, showcasing the cars and utilizing them for drafting...
Under the Lights at the SCCA Runoffs
The SCCA Runoffs was a great event – you can always feel the excitement of the 600 or so competitors who are there. Mazda was very well represented with just over 140 cars in the Runoffs this year! I arrived at Daytona International Speedway last Tuesday, and I got...
Progress at COTA and Global MX-5 Cup Testing
The IMSA event at Circuit of the Americas was this past weekend, and it was a very busy weekend for sure, with both the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and Tudor United SportsCar series. The end results of the weekend, for me personally, didn’t go as well as I’d...
Coaching Drivers with Very Different Goals
Last week I coached two clients during a David Murry Track Day at Virginia International Raceway. David’s events are always an incredible lapping day opportunity for enthusiasts because it’s a unique format compared to a traditional HPDE (high-performance driving...
More Coaching at Road America
I took advantage of the extra day in Labor Day Weekend to coach at an event with a friend and client of mine, Rob Trollinger. Rob was heading north to Road America for his first event there. It’s one of his bucket list tracks, and what better way to do it than with...
NASCAR Weekends at Road America and VIR
The Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Series was at Road America this weekend for rounds 9 and 10 of their season. It was a little bit of a different scenario than the recent IMSA weekend at that track because the series was racing with the NASCAR Xfinity Series. I was...
Driving Two Cars in One Race at VIR
I was really excited about going to Virginia International Raceway last week. I make the drive from the Charlotte area to VIR so many times throughout the year, but this last weekend it was for one of the really special events – it’s a highlight of the season to be...
Introducing the Mazda MX-5 Global Cup Car to the Media
Mazda Motorsports hosted a media event at Willow Springs earlier this week, giving automotive media members a chance to drive the new Mazda MX-5 in its Global Cup trim. Guests actually got to drive all four generations of the race-spec MX-5 around the Streets of...
The Return to Road America
I was excited about getting back to Road America since it’s one of my favorite tracks on the calendar. It’s such an iconic, historic circuit. Thursday, the load-in day, was beautiful and I found time in the morning to go for a run around the town of Elkhart Lake with...