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The Arizona Mazda Club would like to recognize Robby, EVLTSTR, as our July 2008 member of the month!
Robby has been a member of the Arizona Mazda Club since October of 2007 until he bought his Mazdaspeed3 in December of 2007. Since then, Robby has become a very active member of AZMC. His first event with the club was the joint RCCAZ/AZMC New Years Day run on South Mountain but met most of the club at the UMS Dyno Day where he was awarded highest horsepower Mazda for the event.
When asked what his most fond memories of AZMC are, he replied “I think the dyno day would fall into the fond memories area. As well as the ritual pavilions meets and of course the mod meets. And autocross... Yes... The autocross.”
AZMC would like to recognize various aspects of Robby’s involvement such as hosting a monthly meeting as well as several mod meets at his house, organizing a late night Tortilla Flats run and his outstanding participation with club affairs.
Robby’s Mazdaspeed 3, “EGOKLLER”, is a factory freak putting out 274 wheel horse power with some nice bolt on’s including the Mazdaspeed CAI, TWM Shifter Bushings, HKS Blow-off Valve, a Corksport Test Pipe and the MSD Dashhawk.
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» AZMC Rocks Dezod West Time Attack |
If you live in Arizona, you know that summer time means it’s HOT.
If you think it was hot on Saturday, you should have been at Firebird Raceway where the cars were nearly on fire racing in the first annual DezodWest Time Attack!
Racers from all over the valley and state gathered to show their skills on the 1.1 mile Firebird West road course on May 31st with the weather forecast expecting 100 degrees or higher during the day. The Arizona Mazda Club was there in force with the largest single club showing in both the race and show divisions.
The event started early Saturday morning as racers and show cars gathered at the gates for registration. DezodWest officials quickly got people checked in and lined up for the tech process. AZMC had Camp Mazda up and running with the help of those showing while those who were racing could get the car prepared for the event. Several empty cars and gallons of race gas later, AZMC was checked in and ready to hit the track.
The first practice session had novice drivers with limited to no racing experience riding with an instructor to give them pointers on how to drive the course and how to drive the best time they could. This session was cut a little short due to time concerns. The second session had all drivers out on the track by themselves pushing it to the max. Since this session ran longer, many drivers were finding their cooling systems being taxed because of the high heat and their tires becoming sloppy from the hot track. Still, the second session yielded new things to work on and challenges to overcome.
The time attack event came and went rather easily. Cars were grouped according to time so several could be on the track at once. Each driver got a single warm up lap, two hot laps that were timed, and a cool down lap.
A couple AZMC members were faced with technical issues, others with heating problems but overall no accidents or driving awards were given. Chris Largent (Blustreak) was awarded First Place in his stock AWD division and George was awarded First in the RWD stock class. Both drivers put down excellent times.
Other drivers who participated in the race were Eldudo, Unique8, MazdaManiac, Easy_E1, and Werm. AZMC members who participated in the show portion were Hund, Lazybusinssman, Azlizard, yale02, speed-demon13, Chickenwafer, and Jspeed. Chickenwafer was awarded 1st place for his Mazda RX8, Werm 2nd place for his Mazda6, and Jspeed was awarded 3rd place for his Mazdaspeed 6.
AZMC wishes to thank everyone at Dezodwest, AZsolo, NASA, and anyone else who helped make this event possible. We look forward to returning next year!
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» AZMC attends NASA/UMS Mega Event |
While American’s everywhere were celebrating Memorial Day weekend by firing up their BBQ’s amateur and professional racers from across the country gathered in Phoenix for the NASA Mega Event!
A road racing event wouldn't be complete without a little zoom-zoom action and AZMC was ready to provide just that. Arizona Mazda Club member MazdaManiac put his 2004 Turbocharged RX8 to the test in NASA's HPDE 1 group racing on Firebird Raceway's main course. MazdaManiac was against some powerful vehicles but was able to leave them in the dust during the event while seeing speeds upwards of 128 mph!
The HPDE event put drivers to the test as well as throwing them in night time racing as their final session took place at 9pm when the only thing that lit the road was headlights and exhaust flames.
On the other side of the course, AZMC members Easy_E1, EVLTSTR, and Flashwing particpated in NASA's Hyper Drive event which put novice racers on the west road course with an instructor for 15 action packed minutes.
When the Mazda's were not ripping down the track, AZMC members wandered the race paddock where racing superstar Christian Rado was racing his Scion TC in the Modified Magazine Time Attack shootout! Also a few famous vehicles made a showing including the COBB Skyline R35 GTR, and COBB's Mazdaspeed 3.
AZMC wants to thank UMS for the opportunity to be part of this event, as well as NASA for bringing racing to Phoenix for an awesome weekend!
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