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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Maybe I am a little sore over all the Mazda rule changes over the years mid season. Everyone laughed at the Mazda entry in the 24 hours of Lemans, until it won, then there was outrage and immediate banning.
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Actually, Mazda didn't win at LeMans in 1993 as you stated, it was 1991...
And yes, I have to admit that I used to laugh at the RX-792P at the GTP events, because those knuckleheads could never figure out how to even route the exhaust for the 3-rotor and kept catching the bodywork on fire (one car even burned to the ground). I felt bad for Price Cobb, he deserved better...
They waited much too long to enter GTP, they should have just stayed with the little boys in Camel Lights...
Oh Sammy, Porsche's Spyder uses a 3.4L motor, not a 2L...
They tried the no equivalency thing in the '80s with Group C racing and instead only gave you a certain amount of fuel for the race. If you burned it all up, you literally sat in front of the finish line to wait for the checkered flag to fall so you could crawl across. Yeah, that was pure racing all right...
You have to hand it to Audi, the quick disconnect behind the bulkhead for an engine/gearbox/rear suspension change was absolutely ingenious for sports car racing, remember the look on the Chrysler boys faces at LeMans when they had an over 1 hour gearbox change while dicing with Audi during the night and the Audi simply swapped the whole rear assembly of the car in 20 minutes? Priceless!
Ralph