A soul, perhaps. The Mazda 787B is one of those cars. The car that won the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours as an unfancied underdog, the first Japanese car to do so and, as yet, the only rotary-engined winner.

and 13 failed attempts to win Le Mans. Mazda didn't give up, however, and at the 14th attempt, in June 1991, the Mazda 787B, powered by a four-disc rotary engine, beat a stellar line-up of ...

and decades ago was the racing engineer behind the 787B. That Group C prototype racer represented Mazda's last major effort at taking top honors at Le Mans, and take them it did when it won the ...

It’s nearly a week since Le Mans – long enough for the sunburn ... onboard footage of Johnny Herbert driving the mighty Mazda 787B around the circuit during his ‘demonstration run’ before ...

In the late 1960s, a Japanese automaker took a bold leap with an unconventional engine that defied traditional design.

Jim, a virtual artist known as "jlord8" on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm, ...

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