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To this day, Mazda is the first and only automaker from the Land of the Rising Sun to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Not only that, the 787B was also the first and only rotary-powered car to win the grueling endurance race.
To mark 20 years since that historic win, the organisers have invited Mazda to bring the original winning 787B, that has since been fully restored, and let the banshee scream of its rotary bounce of the surroundings of the Circuit de la Sarth just a few hours before the start of the 79th edition of the race this year.
The car is powered by a quad-rotor rotary engine that pushed out 700hp, although many said it was capable of pumping out 900hp at full-tune. That being said, it could probably still keep up with some of the prototypes in the Le Mans field today.
There’s no word yet on who will be piloting the car at the reunion but we have a sneaky feeling the original driver, a certain Johnny Herbert, could end up in the driver’s seat.
We’ve also included two videos of the recently restored 787B at start up and on a full throttle drive by because, well, a post on a topic like this just wouldn’t be complete without a race-prepped rotary being flogged.
Source: Autoblog
To this day, Mazda is the first and only automaker from the Land of the Rising Sun to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Not only that, the 787B was also the first and only rotary-powered car to win the grueling endurance race.
To mark 20 years since that historic win, the organisers have invited Mazda to bring the original winning 787B, that has since been fully restored, and let the banshee scream of its rotary bounce of the surroundings of the Circuit de la Sarth just a few hours before the start of the 79th edition of the race this year.
The car is powered by a quad-rotor rotary engine that pushed out 700hp, although many said it was capable of pumping out 900hp at full-tune. That being said, it could probably still keep up with some of the prototypes in the Le Mans field today.
There’s no word yet on who will be piloting the car at the reunion but we have a sneaky feeling the original driver, a certain Johnny Herbert, could end up in the driver’s seat.
We’ve also included two videos of the recently restored 787B at start up and on a full throttle drive by because, well, a post on a topic like this just wouldn’t be complete without a race-prepped rotary being flogged.
Source: Autoblog
