---
title: "Here, Have Some Mazda 767b Wankel Rotary Racecar"
description: "600 horsepower. 9,000 rpm. Flames."
date: "2015-11-09"
modified: "2015-11-09"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/815/here-have-some-mazda-767b-wankel-rotary-racecar"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
tags:
  - "mazda"
---

# Here, Have Some Mazda 767b Wankel Rotary Racecar

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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. Before the 787, there was the 767b.

That car wasn’t a Le Mans-winner, but it still got down. The 767 ran in Group C spec, the last of a fine breed. Also: the first of a new one. It pioneered the four-rotor Wankel racing engine, a 600-hp breadbox filled with triangular crazy. At 9,000 rpm, it was loud enough to knock your teeth loose.

Mazda says its [next road-going sports car](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/669/going-deep-with-mazdas-tokyo-show-stealing-rx-vision-concept>) will revive the rotary engine. We hope that’s true. In the meantime, here’s a 767b dyno pull to hold you over.

https://youtube.com/embed/gZ6OZK2Qu60

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