Played at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California, the inaugural race of the “MX-5 Cup Global Invitational” had a very close finish.
Last weekend, European riders from Poland, UK, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden competed against Japanese and Australian riders, in a race that also featured a dozen American talents. The international driver with the best result in Sunday's race was Yuui Tsutsumi, with a 3rd place, followed by German Moritz Kranz, who, in the race held the day before, had been the best placed international driver in the final classification, thus achieving a 6th place.Overall, added to the points from the Saturday and Sunday races, Nathanial Sparks (USA) won with 121 points, followed by John Dean II (USA) with 109 points and Robby Foley (USA) with 98 points.
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“Mazda is an international company with a passion for driving, and that passion includes motor sport,” said Masahiro Moro, President and CEO of Mazda North American Operations. “We are excited to be able to take some of that driving pleasure across borders from our North American motorsport group to Mazda affiliates across the globe, and we are already discussing how to make what will be the second annual MX meeting even better. -5 Cup Global Invitational.”
To qualify for the Global Invitational, European competitors joined a Mazda Friends of MX-5 training camp at the ParcMotor Circuit, near Barcelona, last July. At the wheel of the Mazda MX-5 Global Cup 2016 models, the initial group of 20 competitors participated in a series of evaluations (racing, endurance, reaction and simulator) that ended up with five names, the same ones that raced in the USA in the past weekend. -week.
