ALMS: Mazda’s March to the Future

[Wouter Melissen]

PRUETT: Mazda’s March to the Future
With a new Lola Coupe on the way later in the year, Le Mans likely in ’09, and a firm plan for their future in the ALMS, Mazda’s on the march in LMP2.
AUTO-RACING - PRUETT: Mazda’s March to the Future - SPEEDtv.com

[henk4]

the way I read it made me think that March has been resurrected to produce a Mazda engined sportscar....

[MPME]

i thought about that--i guess i figure those of us that remember march's sportscars, much less march as a constructor, are fading.

mulsanne mike has a neat article on march's last attempt at sportscar racing--the 92s intended for the wspc.

[Wouter Melissen]

Originally Posted by MPME

i thought about that--i guess i figure those of us that remember march's sportscars, much less march as a constructor, are fading.

mulsanne mike has a neat article on march's last attempt at sportscar racing--the 92s intended for the wspc.

He is of Wagstaff vintage, so he remembers the time before March was a constructor.

[henk4]

I remember the time was Mosley was still a driver...(with little success)

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by henk4

the way I read it made me think that March has been resurrected to produce a Mazda engined sportscar....

That's what I thought too.

[NSXType-R]

Wow, that's really cool. Make it rotary powered! And make it the same livery as the 787B's.

[Wouter Melissen]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

Make it rotary powered!

They want to make it competitive.

[Dino Scuderia]

The rotary must die.

[RacingManiac]

always good to have a new car in the series....

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by Wouter Melissen

They want to make it competitive.

Remove the "equivalency rules" then
My street car delivers 230bhp from 1300cc !!
Motor racing doesn't say you can have 4 litres if it's a V8 but only 2 if it's an I4 [ those the accursed Ducati pull that con in WSB ]

Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia

The rotary must die.

Care to explain ?
The sound is awsome and the packaging opens up lots of scope for improving the vehicle.

[digitalcraft]

Yeah I don't quite know what people have against it... its a good piece of technology. The main problem is that other companies don't want to be bothered coming up with omg new technology so they bitched and whined and the rotary has been regulated into irrelevancy in many forms of racing.

[Wouter Melissen]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Remove the "equivalency rules" then
My street car delivers 230bhp from 1300cc !!

Your car makes 230 bhp from 2600 cc.

[RacingManiac]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Motor racing doesn't say you can have 4 litres if it's a V8 but only 2 if it's an I4 [ those the accursed Ducati pull that con in WSB ]

Actually it does, LMP rule states that a Turbo charged engine can only be a max displacement of 2 liter 4 cylinder, while a normally aspirated engine can have a maximum of 4 liter and 8 cylinder.....

The equivilency arises obvious from the fact that the power impulses per revolution is hugely different from a wankel to a 4 stroke piston motor....same reason why when MotoGP went from the current 4 stroke formula from the 2 stroke formula the GP500 bike can displace a max of 500cc while a 4 stroke MotoGP bike have a limit of 1000cc(then later changed to 800)...

[MPME]

Originally Posted by RacingManiac

Actually it does, LMP rule states that a Turbo charged engine can only be a max displacement of 2 liter 4 cylinder, while a normally aspirated engine can have a maximum of 4 liter and 8 cylinder.....

The equivilency arises obvious from the fact that the power impulses per revolution is hugely different from a wankel to a 4 stroke piston motor....same reason why when MotoGP went from the current 4 stroke formula from the 2 stroke formula the GP500 bike can displace a max of 500cc while a 4 stroke MotoGP bike have a limit of 1000cc(then later changed to 800)...

AER also has their TT V8 LMP1 engine.