The Mazda 787B's Race Record And Sole European Victory Mazda's rotary engine rarely found itself ... for example. But Mazda's car struggled against competitors like the Sauber C9, which held ...

Photo: Snap Lab / Pinterest The story focuses on the R26B rotary engine, to be more precise, the one in the unmistakable Mazda 787B Le Mans Group C race car that brought the very first endurance ...

Well before either of them got in that business, Mazda developed four-rotor engines for racing, like the one in the 787B ... engine to the U.S. to contest IMSA’s GTP class in 1992. The car ...

one with a four-rotor Wankel rotary engine. The race car was the Mazda 787B and it would eventually go on to take overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race that same year. Yes, you read that ...

Painted on plywood boards, the mural of the legendary Mazda 787B race car measures ... high-pitched engine roar and revved to 9,000 rpm with ease. The race car still makes frequent appearances ...

The Mazda 787B is one of ... the two 787 had to retire from the race, while the third car finished in P20. The Japanese engineers believed that heat from the engine caused both failures.

Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 17, 2011 Comment Now! This past weekend the unique Mazda 787B race car powered by four-rotor Wankel rotary engine took to the famous Circuit de la Sarthe in France ...

The Mazda 787B race car is nearly as famous for the sounds it makes as it is for winning the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans. The shriek of the four-rotor engine has inspired several of professional drif ...

It's not unlike the iconic 787B race car, which produced an easily ... it's based on the conceptual Skyactiv-R 4-rotor engine spoken of when the RX-Vision debuted. Mazda said it makes 562 horsepower.

But Mazda's car struggled against ... Mazda tuned the 787B's engine for reliability, so much so that it showed effectively no signs of wear following the 24-hour race. Mazda entered its ultra ...