When Mazda was still riding the rotary wave, the Japanese outfit also used to race on a professional level. And as fate would have it, Mazda is the only Japanese automaker to have won the hardest ...
In the pantheon of motorsport engines, where the likes of Formula 1’s V-10s, Subaru’s Prodrive EJ, Formula E’s whining electric motors, and the guttural roar of Corvette Racing’s Le Mans V8s hold ...
Jonathan loves just about anything with a motor and a steering wheel. As a kid, Jonathan collected any kind of toy car he could lay his hands on, and begged his parents to take him to the monster ...
The Mazda 787b is a certified legend. A 700-horsepower giant-slayer, the first Japanese racecar to win Le Mans, so terrifyingly effective that the sanctioning bodies banned its engine from competition ...
It takes a special kind of racing course to introduce unseen-able crashes such as the one that took down a priceless Mazda 767B racecar at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Hillclimb offers just ...
Everyone knows the story of the Mazda 787B. It's a glorious multi-rotor machine that remains the only Japanese car to win at Le Mans. It's a major figure in the world of motorsports, and it's glorious ...
His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...
A stunning Mazda 767B is heading to Monterey Car Week and will hit the famed Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca from August 19 to August 21. This particular example competed at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1989.
The 767B was the direct ancestor of the very similar 787B—the car you should all know as the first Japanese car to win Le Mans outright, and by that token the first and only rotary engine to do the ...
Last Thursday at theMotorTrendoffice in El Segundo,Super Streethosted a magazine release event to celebrate its first-ever Mazda-specific issue. The event invitedMotorTrendOn Demand subscribers, local ...
Mazda’s motorsport heritage is being honored at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, currently taking place on the grounds of Goodwood House in the south of England, and tragically one of the ...
One of Mazda’s classic race cars met an abrupt end at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The 1989 767B was doing a timed lap of the famous Goodwood hill climb when it had an unfortunate meeting with ...