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IRVINE, Calif. - MAZDASPEED announced the 2011 SCCA Pro racing Playboy MX-5 Cup Schedule and a new prize payment structure on Wednesday via a live webcast onwww.justin.tv/mazdausa. The 2011 schedule features single events and doubleheaders at many of the iconic tracks and events across the United States.

“Building a race schedule is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, while riding shotgun in an off-road race,” Jim Jordan, Alternative Marketing Manager, Mazda North American Operations said. “You are constantly reacting to input from the racers, time and paddock availability at tracks, and working to insure a sane travel schedule.  We think the 2011 schedule will allow our teams to showcase their talents in front of great crowds, and in front of team owners and racers from other series.  With the demise of several other spec series in 2010, we welcome those who are looking for an affordable place to race, one that provides a clear path upwards.” Read more

As one of my friends put it, I’m going to a party and there’s going to be a race there! The Grand Prix of Trois Rivieres is quite the event. I was there two years ago with Mazda MX-5 Cup and it’s a huge party.

The race event was short in comparison to most of our events. We had no promoter test day and our event was held over the course of a day and a half. Normally we run with the GS cars but the two groups were separated and they had all of their practice, qualifying, and their race on the same day. Our schedule was initially set up the same and we were only scheduled out on track on Friday. We ended up having a schedule change so we had two practices and our qualifying on Friday with our race on Saturday morning.
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New Teammate John Bosch

A few things have changed since the Mid Ohio race weekend. Chris Brown, my former co driver decided not to finish out the season with us so I was racing with another one of the guys that has run a few races with us this year, John Bosch. We had three cars this weekend; Peter London was co driving with Boris Said and Ted Giovanis was co driving with Shawn Dewey.

We arrived on Wednesday night and low and behold, no hotel issues! That seems to have been the start of my last few race weekends. We arrived to the track on Thursday and missed the 1^st session which turned out to be 2 laps. They had an issue on the 1^st lap, black flagged the session, sent everyone out again, and then black flagged the session again. We didn’t miss much at all. The 2^nd session went well and I ended up driving the full session. The track seemed to come back to me and I was pretty satisfied for my first session on track. John and I split the 3^rd session and we decided we needed to make some changes. The car was oversteering quite a bit and was pretty unmanageable. Every time I tried to get on the gas the rear end stepped out. Read more

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