B-14 | Friday, March 27, 2020 AUTO www.WeeklyVoice.com Mazda Teams Up With Canada’s Multimatic For Their IMSA Flagship Racing Eforts! From the next round of the tor Mazda Motorsports, said: the year well with a strong result at the forefront of development. level through the suspension - IMSA Sportscar Championship, “Mazda is looking forward to go- in the season opening Daytona Living in the UK but com- success and speed in competition Mazda’s two RT24-P prototypes ing racing with Multimatic when 24 Hours where Oliver Jarvis peting on the other side of the relies entirely on the driver being will be operated by Multimatic the IMSA resumes racing and we took pole position before inish- Atlantic, their day job involves intuitively connected to the car Motorsports, the competition arm have a shared goal of winning the ing second in number 77 Mazda racing the high-tech, lightweight that he will be handling. of global automotive engineering IMSA driver and manufacturer’s RT24-P alongside Olivier Pla and and powerful Mazda RT24-P pro- A concept that’s similar to the irm Multimatic Inc. championships,” Adding, “the Tristan Nunez – Mazda’s best totype but day-to-day in the UK one that Mazda’s road car engi- With its broad experience in management and engineering ever overall result in America’s both drivers enjoy Mazda’s road neers pursue with their philoso- racing operations and race car staff of Multimatic are familiar most famous endurance race. car range. And they took time out phy of ‘Jinba Ittai’. development, Mazda has now with our team and will continue Having faced technical issues in from their schedule to explain This sense of complete one- tasked Multimatic with the opera- to elevate our programme”. the closing hours, Harry Tinck- why Mazda’s ‘Jinba Ittai – car ness with the car, which sits at tion of its lagship North Ameri - With an unchanged driver line- nell’s number 55 car crossed the and driver as one’ engineering the heart of every Mazda, has be- can racing programme. up, UK sportscar racing stars line in 6th place. ethos applies to both road and come a well-acknowledged trait The IMSA Sportscar Champi- Harry Tincknell and Oliver Jarvis Fresh from a strong showing at track. of Mazda’s range. onship is a multi-class sportscar remain at the heart of this US race the irst round of the series, Maz- With driver focused cockpits, From the MX-5 sports car to series with race distances varying programme. da North America’s British racing personally moulded seats and the the CX-9 SUV, a human cen- from 24 hours to just one hour With the world-famous Sebring drivers Oliver Jarvis and Harry need to feel what the car is doing tered development approach has and forty minutes, and the Mazda 12 Hours postponed until later in Tincknell returned to the UK to at the limit at all times, motors- ensured that every Mazda, deliv- RT24-P race cars compete in the the season, the IMSA series will spend a day with the innovative port represents the very pinnacle ers the seat position, comfort and fastest Daytona Prototype Class resume when professional sport- Skyactiv-X powered Mazda3, to of being at one with the car. intuitive feedback needed for the for overall victories. ing events are able to restart in explore how, whether on road or Whether it’s steering feel, con- driver to feel connected to the Commenting on the appoint- North America. track, Mazda’s focus on the con- idence on the brakes or the direct road and at one with the car, re- ment, Nelson Cosgrove, Direc- However, Mazda has started nection between car and driver is communication of the cars grip gardless of the type of journey. Half Million BMW E-Vehicles Already On The Roads MUNICH: As an e-mobility for the pure electric BMW iX3* is launch in 2013, the BMW i3 has pioneer, the BMW Group has China, where it will also be pro- acquired the status of an icon. reached another electromobility duced for the global market. The With 12 electriied vehicles milestone and already delivered BMW iX3* will be the irst to currently, the BMW Group is a half a million electriied cars to beneit from the ground-breaking world leader of electric mobility. customers worldwide. ifth generation of our highly ef- The company has been the mar- “Half a million vehicles is the icient BMW electric drive trains, ket leader for electriied vehicles best proof: Our broad range of which provide a new balance be- in Germany since 2016 and also electriied vehicles is meeting tween range and battery size. The occupies a leading position in exact customer needs. Now, we key lies in making the drive train Europe and worldwide. The com- are stepping up the pace signii- substantially more eficient. pany has clear goals for sales of cantly: We aim to have one mil- “Our technology lagship, the electriied vehicles for the years lion electriied vehicles on the BMW iNEXT – which will also ahead: A quarter of all vehicles roads within two years. This is be available from 2021 – will sold in Europe should be electri- our contribution towards effec- combine electromobility with ied by 2021. This should reach a tive climate protection,” said Oli- highly automated driving. The third by 2025 and half in 2030. ver Zipse, Chairman of the Board fully electric BMW iNEXT will “We offer an E- drive train vari- of Management of BMW AG. be produced on the same assem- ant for our model line-up – from Next year, the BMW X3 will bly line in Dingoling as vehicles MINI to the BMW 7 Series. Our become the irst BMW Group with combustion engines and customers get to choose: not just vehicle available with four differ- plug-in hybrids,” Zipse said. their preferred model, but also ent drive train variants: eficient This will be followed in 2021 size segment with strong emo- Munich. Thanks to its role as a vi- the drive train,” explained Pieter diesel, petrol, plug-in hybrid and by the BMW i4, a pure electric tional appeal. The BMW i4 will sionary technology lagship and Nota, member of the Board of pure electric. The biggest market Gran Coupé in the premium mid- be produced at the main plant in continuing sales success since its Management of BMW AG..