ROTARYROCKET7

The first event of the Rolex GT series (www.nyrotary.com) will be on January 26th and will be aired on the Speed Network starting at 2:30PM (http://www.speedtv.com/schedule/inde...am=&usecal=yes , check local listings).

THe roster of rotarys vehicles has increased for this years series and all of the Mazda RX-8 are running 20B's.

Speedsource # 69, # 70



Goldwin Brothers Racing # 08
Racer's Edge Motorsports # 30

Hypersport # 40

Team Spencer Motorsports # 48

Also Speedsource (www.speedsourceinc.com) has joined with castrol and is rocking a new paint scheme (http://grand-am.com/News/Article.asp?ID=9417)

I will keep track of the Rolex GT series on the NYRA website (http://nyrotary.com/Pages/racingevents.htm)

Last years coverage can be found here: http://nyrotary.com/Pages/Rolex_GT_Series_2007.htm Mazda almost came in in the top 3 poll positions but after a crash during the final race dropped them down to fourth, so lets lend our support.

Jason NYC

john64

Wait till it comes around to Limerock guys. I think its Memorial day. We where up in the speedsource paddock last year. You have not seen anything to you see a 20B RX8!!!!! Mark it on you calander. Its a nice ride up and back too.

midlifer

looks like there will be 5 teams with RX-8's this year:

Team car

SpeedSource 69
SpeedSource 70
Team Spencer Motorsports 48
Hyper Sport 40
Racers Edge Motorsports 30
Goldin Brothers Racing 08



Bob

j67345

I haven't seen any posts for another group deal this year at Limerock...I hope we can do that again! That was an AWESOME weekend!

I think the race is on Fox at 1 on Saturday...watcihng the Barret-Jackson auction on Speed, and they just had an advertisement for the Daytona 24

john64

Jay's working on it with the Mazda 6 guys again. I hope they sponsor again.

j67345

awesome

midlifer

Hats off to David Haskell, Sylvain Tremblay, Nick Ham and Raphael Matos for putting the SpeedSource #70 RX-8 in the top spot for the GT class in the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona! Great job guys.

Bob

http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/head.../headlines/cup


26 70 GT Mazda RX-8 David Haskell, Sylvain Tremblay, Nick Ham, Raphael Matos 27 56 GT Ferrari F430 Luis Monzon, Matthew Marsh, Christian Montanari, Thomas Biagi, Fabio Venier 28 67 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Tim George Jr., Spencer Pumpelly, Bryan Sellers, Romain Dumas, Emanuel Collard 29 34 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Lance Willsey, Tom Papadopoulos, Mike Fitzgerald, Johnny Mowlem 30 21 GT Pontiac GTO.R Karl Reindler, Hal Prewitt, Spencer Trenery, Diego Alessi, Vic Rice 31 80 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Mark Greenberg, Damien Faulkner, Jan Heylen, Lance Arnold 32 62 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Claudio Burtin, Jack Baldwin, Scott Tucker, Ed Zabinski, Martin Ragginger 33 30 GT Mazda RX-8 Ken Dobson, Robert Thorne, Drew Staveley, Craig Stone 34 57 GT Pontiac GXP.R Robin Liddell, Andrew Davis, Randy Pobst, Gunnar Jeannette 35 88 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Dave Lacey, Greg Wilkins, Pierre Kaffer, Frank Stippler, Eric Curran 36 66 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Bryce Miller, Ted Ballou, Andy Lally, Richard Westbrook 37 89 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Luca Drudi, Raffael Giammaria, Gabrio Rosa, Jorg Hardt, Giacomo Petrobelli 38 87 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Wolf Henzler, Dominik Farnbacher, Pierre Ehret, Timo Bernhard, Dirk Werner 39 86 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Wolf Henzler, Eric Lux, Leh Keen, Sascha Maassen, Jorg Bergmeister 40 15 GT Mustang Cobra GT Tom Nastasi, David Empringham, Jean-Francois Dum, Boris Said 41 69 GT Mazda RX-8 Emil Assentato, Jeff Segal, Nick Longhi, Lonnie Pechnik 42 07 GT Pontiac GXP.R Paul Edwards, Kelly Collins, Jan Magnussen, Andy Pilgrim 43 90 GT BMW M6 Jep Thornton, Tom Long, Joe Varde, David Russell 44 27 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Kevin O'Connell, Kevin Roush, Hugh Plumb, Kris Wilson 45 22 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Carlos de Quesada, Marc Basseng, Scooter Gabel, Nathan Swartzbaug, Patrick Pilet 46 29 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Jake Rosenzweig, Bob Woodman, Scooter Gabel, Louis-Philippe Dum, Chris Gleason 47 63 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Duncan Ende, Ron Yarab Jr., Pierre Bourque, Hima Maher 48 14 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Cory Friedman, Mac McGehee, Anthony Lazzaro, Ralf Kelleners 49 06 GT Pontiac GXP.R Paul Edwards, Leighton Reese, Robert Nearn, Marc Bunting, Andy Pilgrim 50 40 GT Mazda RX-8 Joe Foster, Charles Espenlaub, Patrick Dempsey, Romeo Kapudija, Scott Maxwell 51 72 GT Pontiac GXP.R Lawson Aschenbac, Tim Lewis Jr., Craig Stanton, Max Papis 52 50 GT Mustang Boris Said, John Farano, Carl Jensen, John Cloud, James Bradley 53 83 GT Porsche GT3 Cup C.R. Crews, Ryan Dalziel, Peter Ludwig, Ben McCrackin, Tim Bergmeisler 54 85 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Don Kitch Jr., Ross Bentley, Steve Miller, Chris Pallis 55 64 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Jim Lowe, Jim Pace, Johannes van Over, Tim Sugden, R.J. Valentine 56 81 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Steve Johnson, Patrick Huisman, Robert Doornbos, Richard Lietz 57 74 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Derek Skea, Bransen Patch, Jim Hamblin, Joe Safina, David Murry 58 52 GT Ferrari F430 CH Roberto Ragazzi, Ma Chi Min, Constantino Bertuzz, Joe Castellano, Fred Machado 59 43 GT Corvette Joe Sahlen, Will Nonnamaker, Wayne Nonnamake, Joe Nonnamaker 60 68 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Michael Gomez, Michael Auriemma, John Mayes, Scott Schroeder, Brent Milner 61 84 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Chris Bingham, Don Pickering, Bill Cotter, Chris Pennington 62 17 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Ron Zitza, Gary Jensen, Mark Jensen, Jordan Taylor 63 44 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Steve Paquette, Glenn Nixon, Dyrk Van Zanten Jr., Zach Arnold 64 65 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Russ Oasis, Tom Atherton, Jim Stout, Jason Daskalos, Tommy Archer 65 26 GT Porsche GT3 Cup Jerome Jacalone, Joe Jacalone, Scooter Gabel, Jim Michaelian, Bob Michaelian 66 08 GT Mazda RX-8 Steve Goldin, Keith Goldin, Jim Meassick, Squeak Kennedy

Manny2fast7s

hey Jason,
the car in the pic is the current class leader!!!!!

didnt read the thread...oops

RacingDynamcs

They are doing an amazing job i'm watching now and dvring

RMZ290

So mazda is using synthetic oil in rotaries?

john64

This has nothing to do with Mazda

nelsonrx8

i would like to know whats under the hood

ROTARYROCKET7

Speedsource 70 comes in first, Speedsource 69 comes in 5th and Speedsource Built Racer Edge 30 comes in 10th. 3 Mazda RX-8's in top 10. We are moving on up.

The best part is that we beat second place holder porche by 5 laps.

Razz1

Congrats to Racers Edge.

john64

A 20B
Here are some pics from last years Limerock event Jay and I went too.







You 8 guys need to roll with us to Limerock this year. Its Memorial Day weekend. You will have a blsat going up all the back roads.

John
CTRA

ROTARYROCKET7

yes we do. We all need to roll deep and get a nice tour of the Speedsource and other racing paddock areas =)

chrism

im down to go this year.....

j67345

It was AWESOME last year. Are we going to get the Mazdaspeed parking area and everything again this year?

ROTARYROCKET7

LITTLE VIDEO clip of speedsources speech after taking first at the 24hrs of daytona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4THuNyW-DM

RacingDynamcs

When will they race in the NE? I'll go too

john64

As stated above, Limerock, CT Memorial Day weekend

RacingDynamcs

Heyyy thx for the heads up! I missed your post above due to all the fancy images.

http://www.limerock.com/content/events

OK ROTAR HEADS BE THERE!!!!

Grand-Am GT Classic 23-26 May 2008 Lime Rock Part , CT

http://www.grand-am.com/rolex/schedule/event.cfm?eid=12

john64

Its on, we got over run by the Mazda Miatas last year. We got to do 3 laps on Limerock right before the event.

RacingDynamcs

That is sweet! Would be great to run on the same track they win a race at later in the day.

j67345

A few of us got to run the track on Friday also...they brought us up to ~90-95mph on the straightaway since there were only 3 of us. The only bad thing was getting like 1/2 inch of hot tire rubber from the race cars stuck on my tires after 3 days of driving on the track!