Mazda enters a third season in the top category of sports car racing in North America as a part of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.The Mazda Prototype team will race an LMP2-package with a brand new engine, the MZ-2.0T. The MZ-2.0T is a gas-fueled, inline four-cylinder, 2-liter turbocharged engine that...

SpeedSource team owner/driver Sylvain Tremblay discusses the new gas-powered 4-cylinder turbo engine in Mazda's IMSA P2 challenger, his thoughts on the Japanese brand's competitive abilities for 2016, and the drivers who've helped develop the car.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=habFt3TTjLo]

This week’s racing action takes place at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (nee Mosport) – a place that Sylvain Tremblay knows very well. He explains what makes the track so special to race drivers. I was born in Montreal, so I love Mosport (now known as Canadian Tire Motorsports Park or...

This week’s Behind the Zoom blog comes from Jeff Braun, the competition director at Mazda’s factory team, SpeedSource. Braun brings his immense expertise and experience from open-wheel, sports cars and more to make the Prototype team more competitive than ever before.This is my 55th year in racing... yep, the old...

This week’s Behind the Zoom blog comes from Jeff Braun, the competition director at Mazda’s factory team, SpeedSource. Braun brings his immense expertise and experience from open-wheel, sports cars and more to make the Prototype team more competitive than ever before.This is my 55th year in racing... yep, the old...

When the Mazda Motorsports Prototype race team recently tested in preparation for the 2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona, it invited some special guests: students from the University of Florida's mechanical engineering department. The Mazda racing program is operated by SpeedSource, a race team based in Coral Springs, Fla. The team's...

Mazda has added Verizon Indycar Series star James Hinchcliffe to its SKYACTIV Prototype driver lineup for the upcoming Rolex 24 at Daytona.Hinchcliffe drove the same car last year in the Rolex 24, and also has raced in the GT and GX categories at event. On his way to the IndyCar...

Sylvain Tremblay compares the 1991 Mazda 787B and the current Mazda SKYACTIV Diesel Prototype. ABOVE: The RX-7 GTO and the 787B at the 2013 Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The current SKYACTIV Diesel Prototype.There’s no doubt that racing technology, like every facet of technology, has advanced rapidly in the last two decades....

ABOVE: The famed Corkscrew at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. A breakdown of the home of the 2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs with turn-by-turn, data, annotated track map, plus in-car and track walk video. (Click on the thumbnails below for larger images.)For the first time in 45 years, the SCCA National...

Prepare to cover your ears as pro racer Sylvain Tremblay goes from 22nd to fifth in just a handful of laps with Mazda's screaming 4-rotor 787 Le Mans Group C prototype built in 1990. Tremblay, who races one of Mazda's LMP2 diesels in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, puts on...