I have to admit, the Mazda 787B has really grown on me the few past months. I was suprised to actually find out that it was rotary powered, and it beat the Sauber Mercedes at LeMans. I am just wondering what your thought on it are.
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I have to admit, the Mazda 787B has really grown on me the few past months. I was suprised to actually find out that it was rotary powered, and it beat the Sauber Mercedes at LeMans
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My thought is, that it's a freakin' ledgend. And that the MXR-01 that replaced it looks even cooler, but, alas, couldn't deliver. Oh, and I think it's cool that it's N/A.
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You are kidding me aren't you?Originally Posted by Prius
was suprised to actually find out that it was rotary powered, and it beat the Sauber Mercedes at LeMans
Anyway, I think it's an awesome machine, a true underdog.
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The first and only Japanese car to win Le Mans?
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The first and only Rotary to win at Le Mans perhaps?
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yes. yes.
Also the "most reliable finisher" engine raced in Le Mans too
[excluding the one year, 3 car Honda entry !]
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Didn't two of them drop out, and one finished 2nd in class?
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you maybe thinking Nissan ?
Honda entered 3 NSXs in 94 and all three were classified as finished.
The fastest Honda was still beaten by the Alpine A610 entered-- by 15 laps !!!!
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No, I was thinking about 1995, when 2 of the Hondas in GT1 failed and the remaining one in GT2 won.you maybe thinking Nissan ?
Honda entered 3 NSXs in 94 and all three were classified as finished.
The fastest Honda was still beaten by the Alpine A610 entered
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Are you serious? that is practically the only well renowned fact about the car.
[CYNIC] think it was successful because it was allowed to run light[/CYNIC]
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You're actually pretty close to the truth, in a way, sort of. Rotaries were banned by the FIA after it won as they said that rotaries had a significant weight advantage. Which is a shame, as they could've just worked out an equivalency formula for them, and Mazda could've continued to work at the engine and we may have had better rotaries than we do now. Pity.
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It had less weight to compensate for the rotary's thirst
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When you put it like that, it is a pity.
All about the t-tops
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Considering the engineering effort that went into the Renesis, i dont think we got that much of a raw deal.
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Yeah but if they made it heavier to be fair with the power/weight thing it would still have sucked with the fuel efficiency and the would have canned it anyway.
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