The rotary deserves this win! Woohoo!

 

w00t! win for rotary!

 

yay Speedsource!

 

I hope all goes well for Speedsource, Dempsey and Sahlen for the rest of this seasons races. Bring home some more victories for the rotary!

 

Zoom-Zoom forever!!

 

Where did Dempsey finish?

 

6th in class

 

Speedsource is truly an inspiration for us weekend warriors....congrats to Sylvain and his boys...

 

Most of these drivers are part of the mazda ladder system, and are not pushovers at all. Todd Lamb dominated the MX-5 cup which is a pro series in itself (allthough they cheated, but who does not in motorsports). He also dominated many spec miata championships. He is one hell of a driver.

The mazda ladder system is unique and one of the only ways for non-millionaire, non-racing names to move up into more prominent pro racing. I think it is truly something special and one of the reasons I love racing mazdas.

This sport is full of rich guys whom buy their way into a seat. Some are good some are not so good. But it is an expensive sport, and one that would not exist at all without capitalism and rich folks.....

 

Yes, I'm well aware of those points. By gentlemen drivers I mean those seat buyers who only do 1-2 pro races a year and need to be saddled with 2-3 regular pro's. These are typically CEO's looking for bragging rights.

 

What I found really funny about the speedsource guys and the sahney racing team, was that when i was there this weekend and asked about what porting template or style they were using and which rotor irons they were running, they basically had no clue what i was talking about. I guess they were just pit crew or something, but I know if I was working around that kind of stuff I would know or at least find out. Any of you guys know that info?

 

If you watched the program you would have seen the snippet where they explained they take a stock renesis and add a rotor. Its very small amount of work they said.

 

Which is in fact a white lie to prop up the Renesis. There may be some Renny components in it but very few. From the previous ALMS rotary entry to the Rolex GT car they use the 20b as the foundation . In ALMS they had Carlos Lopez, SpeedSource, Mandeville, and Ianetti's input. Now many of then engines are purchased from SpeedSource.

 

I dunno, those P-port housings looked a lot like stock Renesis housings...

 

I didn't watch the program because i was there lol. I looked at the engine and the stamping on the block says 13b, thats why I was confused when it said 20b on the speedsource webite. I guess its like how they say a 4 rotor is a 26b.

 

The engine package is a full service engine "rental" agreement that the RX-8 teams have with speedsource. Speedsource builds, installs, tunes, and services the engine for one full year/season to the tune of about 1/4 of a million bucks per year. That's why many of those crew guys for the other RX-8 teams don't really know what is going on with the internals. They can troubleshoot things to a certain extent like any good race crew can but the engine is a package deal from speedsource. If it was a speedsource crew guy you were talking to then he simply was not one of their engine builders, or was blowing you off.

 

I was there also. I haven't missed a year for eight. All the Mazda GT cars are PP20b's.