on this episode of the weekend sports cars, also known as Where in the World is my co-host, Graham Goodwin.

Well, we want to say thank you, my friend, to Cooper Tires, the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com.

We want to know where you are.

And we're probably going to want to start the show this

week. A little bit of sadness, if not a lot of sadness. But tell us where you are, how you are doing,

and then let's get rolling, my friend. Well, I'm in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. And as I

speak to you, we're just getting through the final

preparations for the opening round of the Asia Lamont series tomorrow at the Dubai Autodrome

rounds one and two here this weekend and we move from here to Abu Dhabi an hour and a half down

the road for the final two rounds and so far lots to talk about.

We've got questions.

We can come to those later.

But yeah, Marshall, I share, I can hear it in your voice.

It's a sad day.

Yeah, we have the announcement, which should be out now.

And Mazda will be exiting IMSA at the end of the season, exiting DPI specifically,

noting that IMSA also is sanctioning body for the Intimitsu MX5 Cup series,

many of us just have referred to as the global MX5 Cup for a number of years.

So no changes to Mazda's commitment to its MX5 series.

It's massive grassroots motor racing, amateur racing support in the country.

It is, though, shuddering, Graham.

It's DPI effort at the end of the year.

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