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Mazda MX5 Championship

The Mazda MX5 has been around for over 25 years, but still holds a reputation for being one of the best handling cars ever produced. It will come as no surprise therefore that across the world the little Mazda is one of the most popular cars for racing. Here in the UK the Mazda MX5 Championship is one of the largest single make championships. I competed in the championship for 3 years (2011-2013).

During that time the championship experienced a number of changes, most notably a change of name from Ma5da Racing to the BRSCC MX5 Championship. This was due to various disputes between the championship organisers. Fortunately the racing was never compromised and race weekends would regularly see grids of 70-80 cars competing which required a complicated split grid system to keep the racing fair.

The championship, which is broadcast globally via Motors TV is exclusively for the Mk1 Mazda MX5. Events are held at some of the best tracks throughout the UK including Silverstone, Brands Hatch and Donington Park. A typical weekend would include a 20 minute qualifying session and either two or three 20 minute races depending on whether it was a double / triple header event. Points are award to all finishing positions in each race, with a trophy also for the driver who gained the most places from their starting grid position. This helped to ensure that even if you had a bad qualifying session, you could still have a chance of returning home with some silverware.

Ma5da Rounds 16 & 17 – Brands Hatch

My home circuit for the penultimate round of the championship and the pressure was on to do well here more than anywhere else because of the number of people coming […]

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Ma5da Rounds 14 & 15 – Snetterton

Snetterton is one of the fastest circuits that the Ma5da series visits this year, so perhaps engine power would be more noticeable here than anywhere else. Regardless, the aim for […]

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Ma5da Rounds 9 & 10 – Oulton Park

Again it was a case of learning the track in qualifying as we weren’t able to do the Friday test. Oulton Park is quite a challenging track and it took […]

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Ma5da Rounds 7 & 8 – Castle Combe

Typical bank holiday weather was on offer at Castle Combe with rain all through the day. We finished getting the engine back together on Saturday and it seemed to run […]

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Ma5da Rounds 5 & 6 – Donington Park

Unlike the rounds up until now which were one day events, this was the first proper racing weekend starting with practice on Friday. We arrived at the circuit with yet […]

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Ma5da Rounds 3 & 4 – Rockingham

So we turned up at Rockingham with the hope that the changes we had made since Silverstone would help rectify the lack of speed. These ‘improvements’ included a complete suspension […]

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Ma5da Rounds 1 & 2 – Silverstone

After months of waiting, the first round finally arrived. We quickly secured ourselves a pit garage which was being vacated by one of the Britcar Ferrari’s which had been racing […]

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