#formula mazda

[nerdynerdlittlenerd]

some lap times on my favorite open wheel cars on my favorite track :3

[travelingwithtools]

The Old Volvo Chronicles: Origin Stories and Reckless Evading

My evolution as a car guy has taken some twists and turns over the last forty years. I went from being an uninterested teen, to an enthusiastic amateur, to a sometimes racer and then a grizzled old vintage racing mechanic. In the lead image above, I’m sitting in car number 18, on pole position for the first time, with Johnny Banzai on the outside (I’m not a mechaneek, I’m a driver!). The Jim…

The Old Volvo Chronicles: Origin Stories and Reckless Evading

[kinduci]

Happy Days - iRacing Pro Mazda at Montreal

A fun race that went suprisingly well racing in the Pro Mazda official series at Montreal Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on iRacing.

[zwriter16]

This was an awesome race with a fairy tale ending - Kemper has been racing these cars for over twenty years and this represents his first #SCCA Runoffs. Title. #sccarunoffs @IMS @scca  http://www.nascarracemom.com/2017/10/kemper-takes-formula-mazda-national.html

[zwriter16]

I am having a super fun week at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 2017 SCCA Runoffs.  There are almost 1,000 racers here; the youngest is fifteen while the oldest is seventy-six!

http://www.nascarracemom.com/2017/09/runoffs-coverage-at-sccacom-motor-trend.html

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[massive-hat]

Racing School Highlights

So remember how I was going to racing school? Well, I went and it was awesome!

Here are some highlights from that week.

[rideonboard]

New Post has been published on RideonBoard.net - Onboard videos only

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Pivothead HD - Formula Mazda - Road America

Some nice action footage from Beau Borders competing in Formula Mazda, captured with a Pivothead HD. Many close calls and hard racing in this one.

Beau Borders – Formula Mazda

  The Formula Mazda series originally grew out of a group of chassis built by Hayashi in Japan for the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School in California, USA. These cars were completed by Russell mechanics in the paddock of the 1984 Long Beach Grand Prix, where the cars made their US debut. The cars have a basic welded steel tube frame chassis, with in-board front shocks operated by upper rocker arms. A 180 hp carbureted Mazda rotary engine drives through a 5 speed H-pattern (H-gate) Hewland Mk 9 transaxle. Rear suspension is by two trailing links, an upper link and a lower a-arm. In the interest of creating close racing and limiting cost, the rules state that no modification is allowed until the rules expressly permit it—at one time even replacing the mirrors on the car was prohibited. The engines cannot be modified, and they are sealed to make it easy to detect cheating. The cars all use the same tires, springs, dampers, and adjustable anti-roll bars.

Beau Borders – Formula Mazda

In September 2009, Moses Smith Racing, LLC. (MSR), headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, took over all support and manufacturing rights for the approximately 300 Formula Mazda rotary-powered race cars currently in use across North America, as well as the MSR sports racer, a full-bodied version of the FM.