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Mazda RX-7: Y: 528 Mazda 1.9L 3 Rotor 12 GTU: 17: Al Bacon Performance: Al Bacon Bob Reed Rod Millen: Mazda RX-7: F: 526: Mazda 1.3L Rotary 13 DNF GTU 95 Fastcolor Images Bob Leitzinger Chuck Kurtz Butch Leitzinger: Nissan 240SX: T: 517 Nissan 3.0L V6 N/A 14 GTU 71 Team Highball Amos Johnson Dennis Shaw Bob Lazier: Mazda RX-7: Y: 516 Mazda 1.3L ...
Rob Pitts was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His father was a stock car racer and car salesman. Pitts grew up in a trailer park [2] and attended Wade Hampton High School. [3] From an early age, he developed a passion for vintage cars, particularly classic trucks and muscle cars.
The engine continued to be used in the GTS category for the spaceframe FD3S RX-7, which returned to Le Mans in 1994, backed by Mazdaspeed. The livery returned again, in 1995, in Jim Downing 's rotary-powered Kudzu DG-1 , which competed in IMSA's WSC (World Sport Car), a category with different regulations than the FIA.
Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Instrument panel of RX-7 Spirit R Easily the most collectible of all the RX-7s was the last model limited to 1,500 units. Dubbed the " Spirit R ", they combined all the extra features Mazda had used on previous limited-run specials with new exclusive features like cross-drilled brake rotors.
On IMSA’s sliding weight vs. engine displacement scale, the Mazda 4-rotor came in at 1,750 lb (790 kg) and many teams had cause for concern about this, thinking that the Mazda engine had been gifted a power-to-weight ratio advantage. While the RX-792P showed occasional turns of speed, the reality was that the engine simply was giving up far ...
After the death of global Sports Car racing (aside from the IMSA series in North America), GT racing came to the fore. Knowing that teams would always want to race prototype sports cars at Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) came up with a pioneering equivalency formula to allow the production-based GT cars to compete for the outright win against its own LMP class and the IMSA WSC cars.