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Mazda 787B on display at Le Mans 2011 24-hour race After Le Mans, the winning car (787B-002) was retired from duty while the other two cars (787B-001 and new 787B-003) continued to race. Mazda would go on to finish fourth and fifth in the Japanese and world championship respectively, with a season high (besides Le Mans) third in the 1000 km ...
The Mazda 787B, winner of the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans race. In 1991, a four-rotor Mazda 787B (2622 cc actual, rated by FIA formula at 4708 cc) won the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race outright. The 787B's triumph remains unparalleled, as it remains the only non-piston-engined car ever to win at Le Mans, and Mazda is the first Japanese brand to ...
The Mazda MXR-01 is a Group C sports prototype that was used by Mazda's factory team Mazdaspeed in the 1992 World Sportscar Championship season. It would be the final Mazda entry in sports car racing since the inception of its Le Mans project in 1983. It was based on the Jaguar XJR-14.
The event now had grown to over 300 vehicles and attendees estimated around 2000. SevenStock 4 also featured the infamous LeMans winning 787B. Mazda North America President Charlie Hughes was on-hand to introduce the 4-rotor 700 horsepower (520 kW) race car to the crowd. Once the 787B was fired up SevenStock would never be the same.
Mazda 787/787B, a Japanese rotary-engine race car which won the 1991 Le Mans Race Porsche 787 , a race car from the 1960s 787 series (JR Kyushu) , a train model operated by JR Kyushu
Mazda: 717C: 1983 C Jr 727C: 1984 C2 737C: 1985 C2 757: 1987 C2 767: 1988 C2 767B: 1989 C2 787: 1990 C1 787B: 1991 C1 MXR-01: 1992 C1 Modified Jaguar XJR-14: McLaren: C8: 1982 C Modified McLaren M8F: Mercedes-Benz: C11: 1991 C2 Chassis developed by Sauber: C291: 1991 C1 C292: 1991 C1 Mirage: M12: 1982 C1 Mooncraft: MCS Guppy: 1983 C2 Mussato ...
The most prominent 4-rotor engine from Mazda, the R26B, was used only in various Mazda-built sports prototype cars including the 787B and the RX-792P in replacement of the older 13J. In 1991 the R26B-powered Mazda 787B became the first Japanese car and the first car with anything other than a reciprocating piston engine to win the 24 Hours of ...
Mazda 787B Mazda R26B 2.6L quad-rotary: D: 355 7 Category 2 58 Konrad Motorsport Joest Porsche Racing: Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck Frank Jelinski: Porsche 962C Porsche 935/82 3.2L F6 twin turbo: G: 347 8 Category 2 56 Mazdaspeed Yojiro Terada Pierre Dieudonné Takashi Yorino: Mazda 787B Mazda R26B 2.6L quad-rotary: D: 346 9 Category 2 11 ...