It Was So Fast, It Got Banned From Racing

This video gave me goosebumps. Love this . Keep doing this. It is so high quality.👏🏻👏🏻

It wasn't banned for being too fast or too loud... The car won, because the of the rule changes for that year, due to skyrocketing costs and Group C cars going too fast. All the Group C1 were banned for this race, 787b was in C2 which was not banned. There were much better cars than crashed or had mechanical issues, because they were building new engines that were allowed. The car won basically on a fluke, with a transition between Group C and WSC/LMP cars, but the transition took a few years to complete. Watch Aidan Millward's video on this car.

the Mazda was so loud the journalist 2 miles away in their hotel rooms could tell the Mazda's were still running by just opening the windows in their balconies and listen for the howl of it going down the straight

Both Mercedes' were laps ahead until they both eventually broke down, one with gearbox trouble and the other with a fault I can't recall right now. The 787B wasn't really banned, as rotaries are still allowed in the FIA rulebook today. The engine wasn't tied to the 3.5L rule to bring prototype cars closer to F1. Plus the only reason it was allowed to race in '91 at all was because mazda pleaded, all so they could prove that the rotary engine was fit for racing in high-stress situations

It wasn't banned for being fast, it was banned because they changed the engine regulations. The only reasons it won are because they lobbied to be able to run without the weight penalty, and they just so happened to have better reliability than everyone else. It was more a case of being in the right place at the right time more than anything.

Damn Johnny Herbert is such a madlad nad that car, absolutely legendary

Such a great car. And that sound!

I love how in the very early 90s like within the first two years both Nissan and Mazda have two of the most famous cars ever made when it comes to racing because you have this beast and you have the R32 skyline dominating and being called Godzilla

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How can the Mazda be banned foe being too fast when it's victory at Le-Mans was mainly due to the Mercedes C11's ahead hitting trouble and even in its own domestic Japanese Endurance championship it was getting trounced by Nissan & Toyota.

The regulations were already set to change before Mazda won. Great video… but you need to fix the ending. It’s false.

Good material 👌🏼

Great video! Being the 7th viewer and first commenter after almost two weeks is crazy with a video as good as this one.

The 787 is the classic case of you should never meet your heroes!it was a cool car just only in our heads!

The 787B only won one of the ten races that year and they only won Le Mans because of the reliability issues from the other cars, they weren't banned for being "so successful' or "to fast and loud" the regulation change was based on the size of the engines and what type of engine and everyone knew about them before the season, the biggest advantages it had was that it was lighter and it just so happened to more reliable that day, the 787B was in the right place at the right time.

The 787 wasn‘t too fast and got banned because of that. It also wasn‘t as dominant as people think. The car won, because it didn‘t break down like most favorits..

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does they have aircon inside the cockpit?

it was actually slow as shit

nice video, are you using an AI voice?