Don't know if anybody was watching the Grand Am race yesterday, one of the announcers said Mazda will be announcing something big , regarding to racing and mentioned that it would be affecting the rotary teams in the future. This announcement will be made known at the next race.

Possible new Skyactive rotary? Skyactive hybrid rotary? Skyactive piston motor in a new Mazda 6 race car?

 

I caught that too ... something about new engines, but didn't elaborate.

Damn, too bad about what happened to the 70 car

 

subscribing....

....fun, but sad to watch #70... http://www.grand-am.com/#

...love Thunderbolt, it's one really, really fun drive in an RX-8, ANY RX-8

 

Can't wait for that...

 

Subscribing.

Though, I doubt it's a new rotary, Mazda just likes to taunt us now.

 

Its not a rotary...

speed source spent several hours helping us on our rx8 at new jersey this weekend. Even Mr Trmblay himself stopped over to see how things were going. they are really great group of guys although they wouldn't tell me what the plan was

 

^ so how do you know "It's not a rotary"? Come on...tell us....

 

Hope I am wrong but will miss the scream of the rotary at Grand Am.

 

man, f-king a. I had something to do and missed yesterday's race (even bought tickets for!)

and ...

Grrrrrr

I hate my life now. totally

 

no rotary news associated with this.
probably something to do with the B spec series.

 

Not being a rotary is no surprise at all. That means it's either Skyactiv gasoline or diesel. My vote is for a diesel. Audi has proven diesel can work. Let's see Mazda try it.

 

we never know until the announcements are made.

Rx-8 will soon cease production, they might have something in the house already

 

People need to remember that even the last 2 years that a Mazda was run in the ALMS series, the rotary was dropped for an AER built 4 cylinder since it's was more relevant to current technology engines. It was hardly a street based engine but put a Mazda badge on it and people won't know the difference!

 

We know it isn't a rotary since Mazda isn't going to dump tons of money for another year on a car they don't sell.
We know it is going to be something bigger than b-spec since they want TV coverage and have the means to do much bigger things than b-spec
we know Dempsey will be in ALMS leaving Sahlens and Speedsource left for Mazda... I am guessing Speedsource sticks with mazda... but I honestly don't have the entire answer and if I did I wouldn't spill the beans

Stephen!

 

Stephen- My wife and I stopped to talk to you Sat. at NJMP. Great to meet you and GOOD LUCK in future races. Was that you pulled over on the side of the road on RT. 55 in NJ Sunday around 5 pm ? We were in the passing lane with a 4 car caravan and I couldn't get over to the shoulder to see if you needed help. Hope your RX8 didn't breakdown. We'll keep an eye out for you at Lime Rock in Sept. If that's it for the RX8's in Grand Am, well I'm glad we"ll be there. Hellva run for that 20b 1.9L 3-rotor.