The RX8 finished first second and third in
the Alabama Rolex GT race. It appears Porsche
has given up. Our federal tax payers racing
team Government Motors Camaro finished fourth.
I'll bet you did not know you owned a  road racing
team :) If the French people can own one
(Renault Form 1) we can too. :)

Paul Lamar


Thanks for updating everyone, Paul.  To have 7 cars in the top 10 at
Barber was pretty special for all of us at Mazda, this program, and the
teams.  Our sole focus for 2010 is on the Manufacturer's Championship in
all of the series we compete in...and we certainly hope the success
continues.  We are so pleased to have so many customer cars running the
full season.

We are managing the process with the sanctioning body.  And as directed
by us...and managed by Sylvain Tremblay for us the teams have worked
extremely hard to get the cars to work well at each track and we have
worked very hard to get everyone (all the Mazda teams) working TOGETHER
to share data, work together on the track in traffic, etc.

For everyone's information, we were given a 75 lbs. weight penalty by
the series last week after winning the first three races.  Here was
something I just received today (not sure where it was from - a TRG (The
Racer's Group) press release, or something):



"In GT, competing in the same category as a number of purpose-built,
tube-frame racing cars has made it difficult in recent months for the
uni-body, production based TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars that TRG has
taken to victory, including at last year's Rolex 24 At Daytona. Running
a top level program featuring top-line drivers such as Andy Lally and
Spencer Pumpelly, TRG's growing frustration culminated in the team's
decision to sit out at the most recent GRAND-AM round at Barber
Motorsparts Park. TRG had never missed a prior round of GRAND-AM
competition since the series began in 2000.

In the effort to improve tire wear, straight line speed, and overall
handling, GRAND-AM has allowed for a number of enhancements to Porsche,
including:

-The upgrading from 3.6L to 3.8L engines
-50lb reduction of weight
-1/2 inch reduction of minimum ride height
-Larger air restrictor
-Allowing for the re-introduction to bodywork enhancements to the side
of the car."

We are communicating directly with the sanctioning body so it would help
us to keep that communication refined...but I wanted all the rotary
faithful to know we are fighting the fight and hope to make them proud
by being back in victory lane sooner rather than later...

ZOOM ZOOM-

John Doonan


I think everybody came to the same conclusion at the
same time. If you are going to race you might as well race
with a relatively low cost rotary engine that will last the whole
season rather than a $100,000 piston engine that might last
only one race.

Paul Lamar