Mazda three rotor RX8's finish 1,2,3 and 4.
Mazda is getting smart. They are not qualifying on
the pole any longer. You qualify well and the
organizers penalize you by making your car slower :)
They do this by adding ballast or further limiting
the RPM already 500 RPM below the street RX8
red line race to race. About half the cars in
the GT field are RX8's. They are cheap to race
as the engine is basically a stock $8,000 Mazda
Cosmo rotary engine except for the P-ports.

Paul Lamar


Yeah . . .  The winning #70 was also smart enough to knock my friend
Robin Liddell's #57 Camaro into the weeds while he was leading.  And
he never recovered from that.  The GM sleds have also had their share
of ballast added this year.  They are still trying to get the lead
out.  Meanwhile, the
RX-8 stole the lead (pronounced "leed" in this instance).  lol
jd

Government Motor sleds? Your tax dollars at work! Is racing
the new BO stimulus package? :)

Paul Lamar



Some of that Camaro ballast comes in the form of hot air that drifts
into the Camaro intake from the direction of Wash DC.  Lots of density
in DC, but the less dense Camaro mix cuts bhp by about 55 bhp (or mph
depending upon how long your memory is).  And these days DC is
spending our money like Gulf water on AC stuff.  Charging blindly
ahead . . .

Robin Liddell is a Scot I met when he was running Porsches in the ALMS
when I was doing Pirelli PR.  He was chosen by a government committee
on a 6-1 vote (all were Democrats) in hopes of lulling us into
complacency regarding how much money "we the people" are still owed by
the new GM.   That said, he is a damn good shoe.  And he puts up with
my "sense" of humor. lol
jd