Mazda Motorsports and Andersen Promotions Reach Agreement starting with 2017 season IRVINE, Calif. (October 28, 2016) – Mazda Motorsports and Andersen Promotions announced today that the parties have reached an agreement for INDYCAR to sanction the MX-5 Cup series beginning with the 2017 season. The Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires is the signature spec series for the Mazda Road to 24 (#MRT24), the sports car counterpart to the Mazda Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires (#MRTI).

BRASELTON, Georgia (September 29, 2016) – It was a near perfect 45-minute race for the Sick Sideways team, with John Dean II (No. 16 Sick Sideways), the defending series champion, scoring his first race win of the 2016 season. Dean was followed across the line 0.393 second later by his teammate Nathanial “Sparky” Sparks (No. 8 Sick Sideways), who is primed to clinch the $200,000 Mazda Road to 24 scholarship prize in the Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires.

IRVINE, Calif. (September 27, 2016) – Nathanial “Sparky” Sparks, a native of Spanish Fork, Alabama (No. 8 Sick Sideways), leads a pack of four in the hunt for the $200,000 Mazda Road to 24 scholarship prize in the Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires.

BRASELTON, Georgia (September 29, 2016) – The 2016 Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires today wrapped up its inaugural season of competition with the new-generation 2016 Mazda MX-5 racecar.

Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires points leader Nathanial Sparks tops racers from eight countries at Mazda Raceway -