Today kicks off the 2nd season of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship and while it's yet another season without a rotary powered car, I am in curious to see how this season goes for Mazda.



2015 Schedule

• Jan 23-25 Daytona International Speedway
• Mar 18-12 - 12 Hours at Sebring International Raceway
• Apr 18 Long Beach Street Circuit
• May 3 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
• May 30 Detroit Belle Isle
• Jun 28- Six Hours of the Glen - Watkins Glen International
• Jul 12 Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
• Jul 25 Lime Rock
• Aug 9th Road America
• Aug 23 Virginia International Raceway
• Sep 19 Circuit of The Americas
• Oct 3 - Petit LeMans @ Road Atlanta

Here is a good breakdown of the different classes racing in the series: http://www.imsa.com/imsa101/car-classes

 

FOX Sports offers more than 15 hours of live Rolex 24 television coverage, including the opening two hours on FOX network beginning at 2 p.m. ET. The full breakdown is below:

Saturday, Jan. 24 (All times ET)
2-4 p.m. FOX Network
4-8 p.m. FOX Sports 2
8-10 p.m. FOX Sports 1

Overnight (Jan. 24-25)
10 p.m.-7 a.m. IMSA TV on IMSA.com (live video streaming and commentary)

Sunday, Jan. 25
7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. FOX Sports 1

 

Watching the Rolex now. Corvette and 911 are looking good. Was hoping to see the new Mustang.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing the GT 600.

 

on a side note: IMSA's website sucks.
or maybe it's my work computer's outdated IE.

 

I don't have TV any more, this is what I'm watching. It's on-board with 70 or 07 (flips around) and periodic discussions with Mazda. http://www.ustream.tv/mazdaLive
The audio is from the radio feed plus the car's natural audio.


Just had a discussion with Tremblay that they are up about 30mph in the trap speeds vs before because they've moved the torque curve higher in the power band, removed aero drag with better cooling system packaging, plus other chassis improvements. So hopefully they won't be showing so poorly this year.

I wish the engine audio was the 20b though

 

07 is up to 3rd, might pick up the lead for a bit. Granted, it's due to pit cycling, but since they expect the 07/70 to go much longer between pit stops, it's more relevant than just a trivial timing thing.

 

I just realized there was a ~1 second echo in my audio, and tabbed over to the IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship | IMSA TV page i had up for scoring and it was actually playing the normal stream. It's unstable though.

 

07 just took the lead, that is certainly unusual for them so far in their DP history.

 

And... in the pits with lots of steam blowing from the car.

 

Corvettes look really strong so far

 

The delta wing is mind blowing tech ... shame it had an engine failure ... Chip Ganassie put a lot of R and D into the delta wing ... can run speeds with half the horse power !!
Mazda is running a diesel tech but dropped out due to an oil pump failure !
Interesting ...

 

this was an awesome sight yesterday.
Congrats to Mazda and Speedsource on being the first diesel to ever lead at the 24 hours of Daytona






Always love night shots

 

Bummer to see that Mazda again will not be able to finish the race but I think they made big improvements over last year and I am a bit more hopeful this season than I was last year.

 

got a hell of a race on our hands with Scott Dixon and Jordan Taylor fighting for the win with less than an hour to go.

 

I'm cheering for car 54 in the PC class with driver Mark Wilkins who I know and helped build his parents house

 

There is no one left that appeals to me enough to root for.

Mostly listening to the IMSA radio broadcast for the interviews with various people. Pretty interesting hearing about tech and plans and stuff behind teams and organizations.

I've got the in-car camera feed from the 911 Porsche on because it's the best sounding of them all, even if it's 100% transmission gear noise

 

F*ck 23 minutes left in the race an now the car is out and on fire

 

Did both the Mazda's have this issue? Never heard what caused them to retire.

 

I believe the #70 had the oil pump failure.
the #07 dropped out around the 12 hour mark due to overheating.

 

That was a pretty decent race. My wife even watched the bulk of it with me.
I still can't belive that Wayne Taylor Racing screwed themselves with the driver timing issue.

 

I heard that also,did they have a driver do over the 4 hour limit?

 

yeah. Way to shoot themselves in the foot. They had to pit and change drivers, when the pit was closed.

 

oh ****.
I didn't hear that.
Had to leave the house with about 40 minutes left in the race (yeah, I know, great timing)

I thought Jorday Taylor was doing the last stint?

 

The Speedsource RX-8s are going to be back on track this weekend in the Bathhurst 12hr!

So glad they aren't rotting away somewhere. Will be awesome to hear and see them again.