Monterey Country has accepted the proposal from automotive aftermarket company WeatherTech to take over the naming rights of the Laguna Seca road course, starting in April. After the existing naming deal with auto manufacturer Mazda completes its term on April 1, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will be rebranded as WeatherTech...

For the past two years, the Global MX-5 Cup car has been a star in the TCA class of Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car. The car was allowed in the entry-level Touring Car class, which had in the year prior been dominated by the NC MX-5. S.A.C. Racing took the...

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of corporate involvement in motorsports that continues today, Nissan has been named the featured marque of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Aug. 23-26.It was in 1968 that Nissan captured its first of two consecutive wins...

It's hard to argue with success. The inaugural Mazda Road to Indy Shootout at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca produced a scholarship winner who absolutely dominated the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. Oliver Askew won half of the 14 events in 2017 in his first year of auto racing...

The second annual Spring Classic on May 18-20 is shaping up to be a can't-miss event for fans of vintage motorsports. Road racing on two and four wheels and drag racing will all be celebrated this year.Race cars from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s will roar back to life on...

Nikita Lastochkin took a very different route to the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires than many of his fellow competitors. With no motorsports background growing up in Moscow, Lastochkin did not start racing until the age of 22, after moving to the United States. Here, the now...

The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula, stewards of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and Mazda, sponsor of the circuit for the last 17 years, have been vindicated in a lawsuit filed by a motorcycle rider who was hurt in a 2015 crash.San Francisco's Daniel Kim, who suffered injuries...

The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be firing on all cylinders Aug. 23-26 as three fan favorites return to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Fresh off winning the prestigious FIA Founding Members' Heritage Cup, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will hit even greater strides this August.An expected 550 historic, authentic racecars...

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March 31, 2018, will serve as the final day to use "Mazda Raceway Laguna" as the official name of the legendary road course located in Monterey, California.In a relationship dating back to the 2001 season, the sponsorship between Laguna Seca and Mazda went to the extraordinary lengths of renaming the...