Check out my car  in AWR Racing’s Ad! Visit AWR Racing for all your MX-5 Racing needs! Other Mazdas too. AWR Racing is a custom manufacturer of Mazda race and performance parts. They do all their own development and production. AWR builds many of the parts for MAZDASPEED Motorsports, as well as their Pace and Safety Cars. AWR also build the cages that are in our MX-5 Cup cars keeping us safe.

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Miller Motorsports Park Brochure

Laura’s MX-5 was featured on the Miller Motorsports Park’s brochure for the Koni Challenge and MX-5 Cup races on Sept 18-18 2009. Check out the scan to the right.

Women Road Racers

Women keep up with — and sometimes beat — the guys in Mazda Motorsports Development Ladder

When historians look back at 2008, they may be inclined to call it the year of the woman. With roughly half the race season gone, several noteworthy accomplishments in a handful of professional series have dominated the news, illustrating that motorsports is no longer an all-boys club.

In April, Atlantic Championship graduate Danica Patrick won at Twin Ring Motegi in the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win a major auto racing event on a closed-course circuit. The accomplishment placed Patrick among the ranks of drag racer Shirley Muldowney, who won three NHRA Top Fuel Championships as a first female winner in the top tier of American motorsports. Read more