RE: Epic Mazda 787B Rides Again
Discussion
I remember this car too. After the race was over, we were sat in a traffic jam outside LM, and there was a massive party going on at the Mazda dealership. There were MX5's there for sale with the racing car's colour scheme.
Shame I can't be there this year, would love to hear it again!!
Shame I can't be there this year, would love to hear it again!!
convert said:
The Mazda makes a glorious sound, but the AMR1 from '89; you could feel the sound vibrating in your chest.
True, as did the Chevy V8 engined cars and the V12 Jaguars sounded sublime, but they never made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up like the rotaries did...If I ever make a racing movie (I won't, but...) I'll dub the sound of the 787B onto every car
I wonder how hard they'll push it? There was a 787 (I think or maybe a 767) at the Group C race in 2009 and whilst it sounded good, it wasn't the real top end scream you hear on Youtube videos of the race winner in action.
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FFS - That is awesome!!! What a noise.... Surely all race cars should look & sound as good as that does.
Would be worth the trip to Le Mans just to hear that noise again. Should be amazing down the Mulsanne assuming that whoever is lucky enough to drive it gives it full throttle.
I have got the Tamiya r/c model of this car on display & it also hasnt run for years. I wonder if Tamiya, or Mazda, would re-build it for me as it is looking a little tired these days.
Cannot wait to hear it again so hopefully plenty of PH'rs will post video when they get back from the 24 hours.
Lucky buggers!!!
Would be worth the trip to Le Mans just to hear that noise again. Should be amazing down the Mulsanne assuming that whoever is lucky enough to drive it gives it full throttle.
I have got the Tamiya r/c model of this car on display & it also hasnt run for years. I wonder if Tamiya, or Mazda, would re-build it for me as it is looking a little tired these days.
Cannot wait to hear it again so hopefully plenty of PH'rs will post video when they get back from the 24 hours.
Lucky buggers!!!
What a noise ... What a car ... And what pillock decided to ban rotaries from racing at LM ?
If the car is in a prototype class then it should be OK to run a rotary with square rotors made out of cheese and fuelled on hamster wee if somebody is prepared to build it because they believe there is a genuine advantage to be had from doing so.
If the car is in a prototype class then it should be OK to run a rotary with square rotors made out of cheese and fuelled on hamster wee if somebody is prepared to build it because they believe there is a genuine advantage to be had from doing so.
Ironically it won to the Group C regs which restricted cars ONLY by the amount of fuel they used...
Rotaries are actually fairly decent at full throttle, they just tend to be thirsty at part throttle, which is why they seem so bad on road cars.
The chicanes were added in 1990, so the 787B won with them in, but the 767B and earlier rotaries (they were quite a lot of IMSA/Group 5 RX7s in the early 80s) ran on the full Mulsanne.
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Rotaries are actually fairly decent at full throttle, they just tend to be thirsty at part throttle, which is why they seem so bad on road cars.
The chicanes were added in 1990, so the 787B won with them in, but the 767B and earlier rotaries (they were quite a lot of IMSA/Group 5 RX7s in the early 80s) ran on the full Mulsanne.
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