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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 opponent vehicles range from Le Mans Prototype cars, such as the BMW V12 LMR and the Audi R8, to Group C-spec sports prototypes, such as the Sauber C9 and the Mazda 787B. Several versions of the Circuit in its past and present layouts have been made by the user community for the 2005 rFactor and 2006 GTR 2 driving simulation and the rFactor ...
[13] [9] Originally, BeamNG.drive was to be based on CryEngine 3, but its use in a driving game uncovered numerous bugs, leading development to be rolled over to a modified version of Torque 3D. [15] A free tech demo was released on 3 August 2013 along with paid access to an alpha test through FastSpring. The tech demo featured only one vehicle ...
Mazda 787B 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.
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 Le Mans race outright. The R26B engine displaced 2.6 L (2,616 cc) per set of four chambers (counting only one 654 cc (39.9 cu in) chamber for each of the four rotors) – thus the "26 ...
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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.
In the early 1990s Mazda almost created a luxury marque, Amati, to challenge Acura, Infiniti, and Lexus in North America, but this never happened, leaving the near-luxury Millenia to the Mazda brand. Many Mazda vehicles have been rebadged and sold with the Ford brand during the alliance of both companies. Most are noted in the pages of ...