PHOENIX, Ariz. (April 11, 2004) -- Sylvain Tremblay and David Haskell gave the Mazda RX-8 its first North American professional race win with their Grand-Am Cup Series victory in the Phoenix Sport Touring 200 at Phoenix International Raceway. A good pit stop strategy allowed the pair of drivers to pilot their SpeedSource No. 70 Mazda to a 27-second lead over the polesitting Turner Motorsports No. 95 BMW of Don Salama and Will Turner.

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Absolutely super! Now, if they can just keep improving the car, since its new, the boys at BMW won't lead the series for long.

 

Did they show the race on SpeedTV??

 

The Phoenix Twin 200s will be broadcast on SPEED Channel on Sunday, April 18, with the Grand Sport race at noon ET and the Sport Touring race at 1 p.m. ET.

 

Sunday at 1:00 pm EST on SpeedTV

 

Thanks guys. Sure don't want to miss seeing how the 8s kick the others butts on the race track :D

 

what's the turner motorsports car? what are they driving?

 

Turner drives the bimmer 330i I think.

Great job Dave! Sounds like the car drove great. 27 seconds is a very large lead for your class, was it really ALL pit strategy?

 

it looks like the time would have put it 9th overall as well... not too shabby

 

Wow! Great news!

1st - Mazda RX8 (No. 70)
2nd - BMW 330i (No. 95)
3rd - Acura RSX-S (No. 27)
4th - Lexus IS300 (No. 3)

I wonder what other cars participate?

 

Very sweeeet

 

This could be the start of greater things from this fantastic car

 

The guys from Turner where their main problem down at homestead a few weeks ago. Nice to see they are getting a better hang of the car :D

 

RX-8 beats the rest with even only 2 fresh tires