NASA and SCCA cooperate to stage amateur shootout. To the casual race fan that may have attended the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Continental Tire Grand Prix of Monterey powered Mazda weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca May 1-3, an armada of some 48 Mazda MX-5 race cars just looked like a lot of convertibles on the track.  With three different classes running at once, Mazda MX-5 Cup, Skip Barber Mazda MX-5 Series and the Mazda Race of NASA Champions, there was much more than an exciting 45-minute race. The most significant of which was the cooperation between the National Auto Sport Association and the Sports Car Club of America amateur club racing organizations. Usually the twain...
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