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How did a forgotten engine design win a world championship? In 1989, Mazda shocked the motorsport world with the 787B, a race car powered by a rotary engine with no pistons. While everyone else used V8s and V10s, Mazda's four rotor Wankel engine screamed to over 9,000 RPM, producing more than 700 horsepower with almost no weight. Critics called it unreliable and pointless, until it won the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming the first and only non-piston engine ever to win the race. And then it w
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In 1991, Mazda did something no one else dared: they entered a rotary engine car, the 787B, into the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race dominated by V8s, V10s, and turbocharged monsters. Experts laughed. Rotary engines were unreliable, overheated easily, and weren't meant for endurance. But Mazda engineers spent years perfecting a screaming four rotor engine that revved to 9,000 RPM and weighed less than most V6s. The result? Against all odds, the 787B not only finished the race, it won, beating Porsch
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This rotary engine broke all the rules and won Le Mans. The Mazda 787B didn't just win the world's most brutal endurance race, it did it with an engine unlike anything else on the grid. The four-rotor Wankel engine screamed at 9,000 RPM, produced over 700 horsepower, and weighed far less than piston engines. It didn't have traditional cylinders or pistons. Instead, it used spinning rotors in a housing that looked like a peanut. The result? Insane throttle response and reliability. But after the
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