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When I pull the dipstick there is a slight fuel smell
That's typical of all gasoline burning engines. You can have a dipstick smell like fuel and yet have a UOA showing .01% fuel dilution. There's really very little fuel in the oil typically; it's just that gasoline is so extremely volatile, a tiny amount smells like a lot.
It seems to be a Mazda thing, I'm still looking for an opportunity to pull the dip stick on another Mazdaspeed3 and see how it compares.
The smell on the dipstick far is the only time I have ever noticed it on any auto. The cars run rich from the factory and it appears that the DISI compounds the fuel dilution.