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05/16/2012 New Jersey - Team Sahlen came into the New Jersey weekend with high hopes of repeating the 2011 podium sweep by Mazda. These hopes were heightened when Dane Cameron placed the #42 at the top of the time charts on both Test Day and Practice Day. Wayne further solidified these hopes with a very fine 5th place qualifying effort.


“We came into the weekend with a very nice set up from last year. But we were not satisfied with just running like we did in 2011, so we came into the weekend with several different set up directions, in hopes of finding that last little bit of extra speed. It seems to have worked as we kept pace with many of the new cars in GT this year at the New Jersey event.” – shared Wayne Nonnamaker

05/16/2012 New Jersey - This weekend was the 4th race in the 2012 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Cars Series: Global Barter 250. The SpeedSource team was ready to bounce back from Homestead’s brief finish as the New Jersey weather greeted them with perfect driving conditions.

As the team arrived in the morning, they quickly began prepping the car for testing Thursday and practice Friday. SpeedSource had taken 1st place last year at New Jersey and the team was hoping to keep that a tradition. The #70 Castrol Edge Modspace Mazda RX-8 showed no signs of deviating from this, as they placed P1 on Friday’s practice session. Although the 3rd test session was delayed due to an accident on the track, the #70 car was running great and the team was eager to qualify the next day.

Australia - May 10, 2012 - Mazda Motorsport and NSW PR manager Allan Horsley today announced his retirement after a hugely successful career with Mazda Australia spanning over 30 years.

Horsley's decision to retire comes after he delivered another motorsport win for Mazda with the Mazda3 MPS dominating the Showroom category, finishing an impressive sixth outright at this year's Targa Tasmania rally.

Successes such as this and an unwavering determination to succeed have defined Horsley's career with Mazda and made him one of Australian motor sports most respected team bosses.

05/03/2012 Homestead, Florida - The Miami Grand Prix turned into a deluge of rainstorm that seemed to never stop. The rains started on Friday night, and didn’t cease until Sunday after the race.

Before the rains did come though, the skies were blue and the track was dry. Thursday was an official Track Day, and Team Sahlen took advantage of this time to get in some testing. For the #42, the “Wayne and Dane Show” had a chance to try some new set up. For #43, a malfunctioning oil coupling saw the father and son duo of Joe & Will Nonnamaker loose precious track time. The good news is that the problem was noticed before a major mechanical failure, such as motor evolved.

05/03/2012 Homestead, Florida - This weekend marked the 3rd race of the 2012 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Cars Series: The Grand Prix of Miami. The race was hosted in SpeedSource’s backyard track, Homestead-Miami Speedway. Florida welcomed teams with sunshine as the crews unloaded on Wednesday but it also welcomed fans with rain by week’s end.

The SpeedSource team was no stranger to Florida thunderstorms. After practicing in rain off and on, the team strategically prepared the #70 Castrol Edge Modspace Mazda RX-8 for the rain that Homestead was expecting. On Saturday, qualifying was canceled due to inches of rain gathering on the track. GRAND-AM announced that teams would then start the race by point standings. This meant that SpeedSource would start on the front row in 2nd.

SOURCE: www.rallysportmag.com

Mazda Motorsport has today confirmed a three-pronged assault on next week’s Targa Tasmania rally, the final round of the Australian Targa Championship.

The team will field two RX-8 SPs and a Mazda3 MPS to attack the grueling tarmac event which covers 586 competitive kilometers over six action-packed days.

April 10, 2012 (Signal Hill, Calif.) – Wanting to put on a strong show in front of his hometown crowd, and get his championship off to a strong start, Kyle Mohan was looking for a strong qualifying run when he rolled the Nexen/ Mazdatrix Mazda RX-8 to the starting line for his first of two qualifying runs. What he didn’t have in mind, however, was nosing his car into the turn 10 tire wall after making contact with the wall in the first clipping zone of the track.

March 31, 2012 - SpeedSource was back in black for Saturday’s race at Barber Motorsports Park. The weekend marked a return to the iconic matte black paint scheme for the #70 Castrol Edge Mazda RX-8 and the classic livery was warmly received through the paddock. On track, the return to racing since January’s Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona was equally welcomed and the #70 Castrol Edge Mazda RX-8 driven by Sylvain Tremblay and Jonathan Bomarito cruised to victory in GT. The result brings Mazda its first victory for the 2012 season in just the second race of the Championship.

01/29/2012 - This year marked the 50th anniversary of the historic Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. This twice-around-the-clock spectacle attracts dozens of the finest teams and drivers in all of international motorsports. With a strong endurance racing pedigree, the SpeedSource team arrived in Daytona prepared and ready-to-race. Regular-season drivers Sylvain Tremblay and Jonathan Bomarito were joined by racing superstars Marino Franchitti and James Hinchcliffe in the #70 Mazdaspeed RX-8.