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| The little engine that could and did! |
In the dead heat of June 1991, at the grueling 24 Hours of Le Mans, a scream unlike any other pierced the air not human, but mechanical. It was the sound of the Mazda 787B, defying convention, roaring into the history books.
Against a field of giants and decades of European dominance, a bold machine from Japan did the unthinkable. The 787B, with its revolutionary R26B quad-rotor Wankel engine, unleashed nearly 700 horsepower through a high-pitched wail that echoed across the French countryside like a battle cry. With three spark plugs per rotor and a continuously variable intake system, it wasn’t just fast, it was alien, brilliant, alive.
Traditional engines pounded with brute force, but the rotary whispered secrets of another engineering philosophy, lighter, simpler, fewer moving parts. Where others faltered through the night, the 787B endured, relentless and precise. And when the sun rose over Circuit de la Sarthe, Mazda crossed the finish line first, not just victorious, but immortal.
It was a moment that shattered expectations and rewrote history. Mazda became the first, and remains the only, Japanese manufacturer to win Le Mans outright. And with rotary engines banned from the race thereafter, the 787B’s triumph became a legend frozen in time, a singular roar that has echoed for over thirty years.
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