Jacobsen Motorsports

Car 930 Mazda MX‑5 SCCA sprint ChampCar endurance

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Car 930

One car, two very different jobs. It runs twenty-five minute sprints in the Florida sun and it runs fourteen hours into the dark, and it has to come home from both.

The number is 930 in both series. The livery is deliberately plain — white bodywork, black splitter, hazard chevrons on the wing — so a partner's mark is the thing you actually see at speed.

Chassis
Mazda MX-5, NB generation
Build
SuperMiata
Sprint number
930 — SCCA class A, E3
Endurance number
930 — ChampCar class A
Aero
Front splitter, vented bonnet, rear wing
Night kit
Black Oak LED bar and driving lights
Rubber
Hoosier and Toyo on Tire Rack support
Side elevation of the #930 Mazda MX-5 in the Sebring pit lane, showing the full livery.
Sebring pit lane. Everything a partner buys is on this side of the car.
The #930 head-on in the Sebring garage, splitter and brake ducts visible.
A scrubbed slick on a lightweight wheel, pulled off between stints.
Rain beaded across the rear wing.
The #930 from behind in the paddock at dusk.
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Sebring, in daylight

Concrete, palm trees and no shade. Sprint weekends are short sessions and no margin — the result is decided in the first two laps and the car has to be right before it leaves the garage.

Sebring is the hardest surface the car sees all year. What survives a weekend here is what gets loaded on the trailer for the enduros.

The #930 at speed on the Sebring circuit.
The car waiting in the Sebring pit lane under a hard blue sky.
Panning shot of the #930 through a Sebring corner.
Overhead view of the car turning in at Sebring.
The car silhouetted against low sun in the Sebring pits.
A driver reflected in the car mirror before a session.
An impact gun and a hammer left on the paddock concrete.
Panning shot of the #930 at speed, livery lit by trackside light.
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After dark

The ChampCar Endurance Series runs long. The sun sets, the LEDs come on, and the car keeps going — through driver changes, fuel stops and whatever the weather is doing at two in the morning.

Endurance is not a faster version of a sprint race. It is a different discipline: stint discipline, fuel numbers, brake wear, and a crew that can change a corner in the rain without being told to.

The team finished the weekend second overall. Nothing about the car was new that morning, which is the whole point.

Finish
P2
Series
ChampCar
Class
A
Car
930
The car up on jacks in the paddock after dark, crew working under floodlight.
A crew member flat on his back under the rear of the car on wet asphalt.
Half past the hour, in the rain, on his back under the rear of the car.
Headlights on, the #930 turning in at dusk.
Refuelling over the wall in the rain, fire bottle ready.
Three cars nose to tail under lights in the wet.
Bonnet up in the dark, headlights still burning.
The car running into the dark on a damp circuit.
Three of the team on the ChampCar podium holding the second-place trophy.

Second overall

Three drivers, one car, one trophy. The hard part of an enduro result is that every stint has to be boring — and that is a crew achievement before it is a driving one.

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The people who run it

Six people, one trailer. Everyone here does more than one job, and most weekends the person who built the corner is the person driving on it.

  • The team principal in his suit between sessions.

    Team principal

    Drives the car he prepares. Sprint and enduro.

  • Bex Cranston in helmet and HANS, ready to get in.

    Bex Cranston

    Driver. Sprint races and endurance stints.

  • The crew chief in the paddock, cap and sunglasses.

    Crew chief

    Setup, strategy, and the call to come in.

  • The youngest member of the team leaning on the car.

    Driver

    Youngest in the garage, quickest to learn a circuit.

  • A mechanic working on a wheel in the paddock.

    Mechanic

    Corners, brakes, and everything between stints.

  • Driver and crew chief on the radio under the awning.

    On the radio

    Pit wall through every session.

Two drivers embracing in the garage after the finish.
Hands on his head, laughing, after the checker.

The end of a weekend

A club team is a group of people who keep choosing to spend a weekend in the heat, under a car, for a trophy nobody outside the paddock has heard of. This is what the end of one looks like.

The team beside the #930 in the Sebring garage at the end of the weekend.
Sebring, end of the weekend.
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Put your mark on it

The livery is plain on purpose. White car, black splitter, one stripe — so that the thing people actually read at two hundred feet is your name.

Sponsorship here is not a logo on a page nobody visits. It is a car that gets photographed every weekend it runs, by people who are good at it, in two series with national fields.

Tell us what you want out of it and we will tell you honestly whether we can deliver it.

Start a conversation
The endurance crew with the car after the race.

  • Rear quarters and doors

    The largest clear panels on the car, and the ones every trackside and panning photograph catches.

  • Bonnet and wing endplates

    Head-on and from behind — the angles that dominate grid shots and in-car footage from the cars behind.

  • Suits, helmets and crew shirts

    Pit lane, podium and every photograph of a person rather than a car.

  • Trailer and awning

    Visible for the whole weekend in the paddock, and on the road between events.

Running with

  • Tire Rack
  • Mazda Motorsports
  • Black Oak LED
  • Beyond Motorsports
  • Trackday Tire
  • Assabet Advisors
  • Signarama
  • Hoosier
  • FCP Euro
  • Go Sportfishing