KEVIN BUCKLER, owner and founder of TRG (The Racer’s Group) has his finger in many pies, especially this weekend. The sports car program (Grand-Am) is his bread and butter, he said, and that’s why he’s at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the Verizon Festival of Speed, with seven Porsches: five Porsche 997 GT3 cars in […]

The last half hour of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was the most exciting. Watching the Daytona Prototype leaders racing three-abreast up the Turn Seven hill towards the famed Corkscrew was breathtaking. Coming down the hill then leader SCOTT PRUETT/No.01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus […]

A new team brought some levity and irreverence to the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series this weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the Verizon Festival of Speed. Team Polizei 144 is running its first ever race, and if things go well, it could run future selected races. Team Owner, ALEX ROY, has aligned himself […]

The wind started to pick up slightly Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the Verizon Festival of Speed. The flags were starting to move, somewhat lethargically. They should be flying straight out when the afternoon breezes kick in. By the time the race started for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Series. the temperature […]

At 9 am PDT it was 85 degrees F when the Grand-Am Rolex Series took to the track at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for their half-hour warmup, prior to their 1 PM PDT race as the headliner for the Verizon Festival of Speed. There was no breeze – the flags hung limply all around the […]