Mazda Shootout

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Mazda Shootout

Post by blindsidefive0 » Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:53 am

Mazda is taking a mix of club racing champions, iRacing champions, and otherwise talented prospects and pitting them against each other to find a pro racer. This is a ridiculously cool opportunity, and they are being really thoughtful about it (lots of focus on the driver, as opposed to the heavy publicity angle of the Nissan program) - I'll be rooting for old friend and former GT Academy classmate Glenn McGee.

http://www.nationalspeedsportnews.com/r ... otout-set/

Maybe we should give them them an earful about not considering ClubOfMiatas Sports Car Club Miata Cup winners...
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by SEISAN » Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:49 pm

Hey Hi Oh,

COM stands for Corvettes of Massachusetts, always did and always will since 1958

You actually mean MOC....... Miatas of Connetcuit, Miatas of Colorado, Miatas of Concord, etc.

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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by brucesallen » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:54 am

I thought it was Club of Old Men.
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by SEISAN » Thu Oct 29, 2015 12:45 pm

Hey Bruce,

that sounds great. Some of us may be older men , but we still have plenty of gas in the tank...... just ask Sam.

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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by DanDarcy » Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:25 pm

Sam has to add a pill to keep his gas tank full :D :D :D

I though COM stood for "Club of Miatas" :D
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by cuda6666 » Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:20 pm

To be really precise, COM started as "Corvettes of Massachusetts" , briefly changed to "Clarks of Maine" during the early '90s, but has definitely become "Club of Miatas" in its current incarnation.
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by brucesallen » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:55 am

cuda6666 wrote:To be really precise, COM started as "Corvettes of Massachusetts" , briefly changed to "Clarks of Maine" during the early '90s, but has definitely become "Club of Miatas" in its current incarnation.
would you come back if we made it Club of Old Men?
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by cuda6666 » Fri Oct 30, 2015 5:55 pm

Sure...as soon as the rules change back to where I'm not penalized for being a good mechanic :lol:
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by blindsidefive0 » Thu Nov 19, 2015 7:02 pm

http://www.racer.com/north-american-rac ... 4-shootout

Glenn won it! He gets a $100k scholarship to drive a nd miata cup car in 2016.
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by paultg » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:49 pm

That's awesome!
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Re: Mazda Shootout

Post by cfossum » Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:45 am

very cool

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