Club Racer Shootout winner has faced a steep learning curve in his rookie season of pro racing as he adjusts to the Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires."It makes me question everything I know, because I had to really learn how I drive a racecar, driving these...

Held as part of the Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires Round Six, the race featured 20 NASA champions in identically prepared MX-5s. Matt Powers of San Rafael, Calif., won the inaugural Mazda Race of NASA Champions at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to be crowned NASA Grand...

Atlanta Motorsport Group signs Mazda Club Racer Shootout winner as the 2015 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires opens its season at Sebring. Kyle Loustanau from Vacaville,Calif., leads the lineup for Atlanta Motorsports Group in the SCCA Pro Racing Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich...

Current and former MX-5 Cup competitors have some words of wisdom for Mazda Club Racer Shootout winner Kyle Loustaunau, or anyone in a similar situation.So, Kyle Loustaunau has won the Mazda Club Racer Shootout. His 2015 season is set for competition in the Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by...

The 16-year old Skip Barber Summer Series champion made it to the finals of the Mazda Club Racer Shootout. Sam Adams's racing career could have gone down a very different path, considering what first piqued his interest in the sport. It was a die-cast model of a NASCAR stock car...

The Mazda Club Racer Shootout has, for several years now, been the ultimate springboard from amateur to professional racing. In 2014 it expanded, creating a possible conduit straight from sim racing – computer based racing competition – to the professional ranks.In theory, someone who had no racing experience at all...

Northern Californian works two jobs to fund his racing; it paid off with a NASA Spec Miata championship and a drive in the 2015 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires."It's pretty damn awesome!" sums it up nicely when Kyle Loustaunau talks about winning the Mazda Club Racer...

When he set out to build his racecar, Eric Powell had one goal in mind: win a club racing national championship and qualify for the Mazda Club Racer Shootout. He achieved that goal, but it turned out to be a little bit more difficult than he anticipated. In the process,...

Vacaville. Calif. racer awarded $100,000 scholarship prize to compete in the 2015 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires. After half a day of presentations, grilling by judges and a day of lapping on a very wet and slick Buttonwillow Raceway Park West Course, Kyle Loustaunau (LEFT) emerged...

Eight aspiring professional racers will square off today at Buttonwillow Raceway in California for the final round of the 2014 Mazda Club Racer Shootout. Making things extra interesting, rain is falling in California's Central Valley region today...This year's crop includes iRacing champions Evan Maillard and Steven Diem. Maillard of Nesles...