Love the 767B, I saw it in period at La Strathe in 1989. All 3 Mazda team cars finished, the only other team to get 3 cars across the line was Sauber. The engine note on the 767B is that more throaty than the 787B because of the 2 stage air inlets compared to to the later fully variable inlets. Also the colour schemes on the 767s were that much deeper than the more neon 787B. Great car, great memories, Mazda need to return to Le Mans. Thanks
Such an awesome race car. Too bad the weather was too cold, the slicks were stiff as a rock = no traction, and such a small bumpy race track for the car. Shame... Still a thumbs up for the video though.
What an incredible car!!!!!! I am glad that someone is preserving it. But, being the performance legend that it is, I'm glad to see it being taken out to the track and letting it get some exercise.
Best sounding race engine ever. Best engine concept ever. Group C car designs are also beautiful. You are a lucky man driving it, I can only dream looking at it in real life.
Drove this car in gran turismo. Believe me it is an amazingly fast car and really hard to drive. The acceleration was just super quick that made one slight mistakes could cost a lot. The character pretty much the same as mclaren f1 gtr.
This car is legendary and just badass from top to bottom. It’s so intense it can make an experienced driver look like a bum just trying to handle the thing.
In case anyone is wondering what the "variable induction system " is, this car has a mechanism that extends and retracts the lengths of its velocity stacks for optimized throttle response in relation to throttle position. Absolutely mental.
You don't know fear until you have driven an angry Rotary Engine in a skittish chassis. The noise, the smoothness of the seemingly endless RPM, the smell of oil and fuel. Savour it.
The way tsuchiya san is struggling with the car puts it into a wild perspective! The guy uses to drive anything you can dream of, yet this 600kg bucket has him holding on for dear life xD
I fell in love with this car. A car so loud , so powerful they had to warn the fans to cover their ears as it approached. As a man I want to drive this car. I reserved myself to simply enjoying the videos of it. Later on in the day I turned on my PLAYSTATION 4 and inserted my ASSETO CORSA racing game. And there, in the car selection mode of the game , I FOUND IT. IT'S IN THE GAME. SAME CAR SAME PAINT SCHEME. I GOT TO DRIVE THE CAR!!! FYI , even in the game the car is a BEAST!!!
Might be just me, but the headlights and tailights look pretty different from the car that won Le Mans. Still a great showing of the beast, even if it was on a relatively small track! Edit: I see, 9th place car. Still awesome!
It would of be one of the best engine, rotary that is ... for it's size the power it produres is amazing, instant power is amazing... sounds like a motor bike.. rotaries engines a amazing. As perfect as it may seem or how much i adore it, i wouldn't even bother wasting money on it ... reliability, engine life is short, fuel is just a joke don't even think about it, all those years, time and money...it was worth wasting on, i really loved all their RX7's especially the FD's but never had the money to get 1... so instead i got myself a Nissan Skyline BNR GT-R R32 and I'm restoring it now all by myself done 120k plus km . First generation ...
Funny to think ths is the same 767B that crashed at Goodwood. A huge front chunk of the old crashed shell is now hanging on a wall at Eco Cpu in Hyōgo.
I am pretty sure the suspension was set stiff to conserve it. Also the tires being cold and having probably a higher pressure than in racing mode to conserve them, made this prototype racing demon hard to handle ;)
Genuinely speaking, it seems the car would work a lot easier if it had less rebound and a small motor on the steering rack to allow for smooth, miminalistic inputs rather than all the work dori-san is having to do, all while being bounced around like some kid in a wrx on raceland coilovers that he bottomed out and slapped in
Such a scary car. You can tell it needs to get the tyres hot then fly into corners with downforce. I can imagine how terrifying it would be to not have experience in it and come into a corner at light speed praying that it goes around and not fly off destroying a timeless piece of automotive history.
Well that's one way to keep heat in the right rear tire lol. Car wasn't set up for that track. If it was (softened suspension, running a restrictor etc.) It would have done far better of a lap.
