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Feb 08 2012, 02:28 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 13 comment(s)
Today Mad Mike Whiddett and 9 top level D1NZ drivers cruised the streets of Auckland, NZ to raise funds for a good cause. Local New Zealand drift fan, Daniel Baxter was diagnosed with cancer last year but with the help of the D1NZ crew, drivers and New Zealand Police, he was given something sure to bring some happiness, in what can only be described as a very difficult time for him and his family. Daniel rode shotgun in one of the police cars, leading the convoy while the passenger seats in the drift...
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Feb 06 2012, 02:00 AM
by
Matt Malcolm
with 33 comment(s)
Our final part of show coverage from the 4 & Rotary Nationals 2012 looks at one of the largest categories from the show: the rotaries!
I'll also cover off the American classics and the few European cars that attended in this article too....
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Jan 19 2012, 08:00 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 43 comment(s)
After a nice selection of GT-Rs in the previous post let's take a look at the rotaries that were present at the show. A lot of these cars we all know well and have seen before, others like the RE-Amemiya Super NA7 were quite the surprises... ...much like Mad Mike's FD at the Rays booth. I found one of my favorite RX-7s on the little cornered off RH9 part of the show, the RE-Wing FD which was recently blasting around Tsukuba at the Super Battle event in December. What makes this car special...
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Sep 26 2011, 07:00 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 20 comment(s)
I've been doing quite a lot of traveling this month, making the trek down to Osaka in order to cover the King of Sedan Festival. I came back to Tokyo for three days, just enough time to post up the coverage from the year's biggest VIP meeting before shooting off once again, this time by train thankfully, up to Sendai in the northern part of Japan. My destination, just like last year, was to be Sendai Hi Land... ...and the yearly meeting of Roadsters and Rotaries. It's hard to believe...
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Posted
Aug 16 2011, 09:00 AM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 12 comment(s)
Darren just sent us across this video capturing some of the on-board action inside the Team Need for Speed D-Mac '86 from Awesomefest. Hit play and turn up your speakers for a bridgeported rotary aural assault.
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Paddy McGrath
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Aug 06 2011, 11:59 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 26 comment(s)
Motorsport is a tough old game. You can spend months, years even building your own personal race car and with one slight misjudgement all those hours of hard work can be undone in an instant. Most of us would probably have a little cry and call it a day. Darren McNamara however only saw fresh opportunity when faced with this exact dilemma. To really show you the whole picture of how this car evolved, I need to first take you back to October 2009. D-Mac was finishing his second season as a Formula...
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Jul 09 2011, 08:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 14 comment(s)
A while back we saw actor, Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey, take it easy around the Le Mans race track in the new restored Mazda 787b. But on race day of this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, Johnny Herbert returned, once again, to give the full beans to his Le Mans winning car for the first time since that historic day in 1991.
Turn up the volume, sit back, and enjoy the glorious sound of the 26B as it thunders down the Mulsanne Straight.
-Linhbergh
Speedhunters 2011 24 hours of Le Mans coverage
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Posted
Jun 11 2011, 09:00 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 27 comment(s)
Actor, Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey, got behind the wheel of the recently restored Mazda 787B prototype for a demonstration lap around the Circuit de la Sarthe. He might have not given the car the full beans, but the 26B sounds heavenly regardless.
-Linhbergh
Speedhunters 2011 24 hours of Le Mans coverage
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Posted
May 24 2011, 03:00 PM
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Mike Garrett
with 30 comment(s)
On June 11 the iconic Mazda 787B will return to Le Mans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its historic race win back in 1991. How great will it be to see (and hear!) this wonderful race car on the track again? Until then, here's a great shot that Mazda released of the fully restored 787B being tested in Japan prior to its journey back to Circuit de la Sarthe. -Mike Garrett
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Oct 29 2010, 03:00 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 18 comment(s)
Brace yourselves, as you are about to enter into what can only be described as rotary heaven! This is a place where tiny little Wankel engines are made to do incredible things when bolted down into equally impressive, purposely built chassis. I am of course talking about PAC Performance , the next stop in our Australian drag racing shop tour. When Rod and I pulled up in front of the PAC workshop in a brand new red R35 GT-R we probably got some weird looks as this was in all effect, rotary-only land...
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Oct 23 2010, 02:00 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 14 comment(s)
Prior to this month, I'd never really had any sort of exposure to drag racing, apart from a few late night street sessions. This is one of those videos that the first time I saw it a couple of years back, I nearly fell off my chair with amazement. Even all this time later, it still brings a smile to my face. Amazing stuff.
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Paddy McGrath
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Posted
Sep 24 2010, 08:30 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 26 comment(s)
One of the reasons I like Seven Stock is you won't find many cars that are "all show and no go". It's because of the mentality rotary enthusiasts have in the first place. They are all about performance, efficiency and lots of power. Good looks are a byproduct and because the motors are complex you are more likely to find cars that are "all show and all go". At first glance you would think this RX-7 FD is a show queen, but it's far from it. The first time I shot this...
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Sep 21 2010, 06:30 PM
by
Linhbergh
with 39 comment(s)
Seven Stock is the largest Rotary enthusiast meet in the world. Hundreds of cars and thousands of fans from as far as Japan come to Mazda USA headquarters to celebrate the Wankel lifestyle. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I heard of a little thing RX-7 enthusiast do to kind of poke fun at their love for the rotary. When you see another RX-7 owner driving on the street, you hold up your fingers to indicate how many motors have you gone though on that particular car. I asked CX-Racing...
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Posted
Jul 07 2010, 03:01 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 19 comment(s)
Well it's July 7th, and in Japan RX7 owners and enthusiasts use the day to celebrate their favorite rotary sports car.
Our friend Sassy at 22C Works just sent us a bunch of images from a recent club gathering....
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Apr 13 2010, 05:00 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 26 comment(s)
I met up with a bunch of the local rotary crew here in Vancouver last week, had some beer and some wings and did a lot of bench racing, always fun to meet up with some Rotangs. The late night antics of a couple of the guys was pretty fun too. There may or may not have been an 'incident' with a Toyota Prius, I can't comment on it here though. Check out Jean-Marc's FC that pumps out 400+ RWHP, 13B half-bridge ported with a Garrett T67 turbo I believe, tuned via a microtech ECU, and...
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Posted
Feb 24 2010, 02:44 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 30 comment(s)
For the past seven days, I've been tooling around the Los Angeles area in a 2010 Mazda RX-8 R3. Even seven years after it was introduced, the RX-8 is still one of the most unique cars on the road, and despite some drawbacks, it offers a driving experience to match....
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Posted
Jan 26 2010, 12:04 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 24 comment(s)
Has it already been a full year since we did Mazda month? Indeed it has. No matter what month it is, I think we can all agree there's never a bad time for some rotary action, and here we have plenty of that - thanks to Roo Wills from New Zealand.
Roo headed out to the New Zealand Rotary Summer (yes, summer) Drags earlier this month and sent us some photos of his findings....
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Posted
Nov 18 2009, 03:12 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 38 comment(s)
Back in January when we did Mazda month, we ran a spotlight on this IMSA-styled SA22C RX7 out of Japan. At the time the car was done in semi-gloss black, but it's since been repainted in a glossy red. The guys from the 22C Works website sent us some photos of the remade car, and we knew for sure you guys would want to see them....
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Posted
Nov 07 2009, 01:22 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 26 comment(s)
When I met Darren for his headshots for the DMac retrospective , he had only just put the finishing touches to the latest incarnation of the MCNSport AE86. It's been several months since I last saw the car tucked away at the MCNSport shop; before that it was at an AE86 trackday at Mondello Park. I'd heard a few rumours circulating around for a while that the guys were planning all sorts of different engine conversions for the lightweight Trueno. 20V's and Formula Atlantic 4AGE's were...
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Posted
Oct 20 2009, 11:24 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 22 comment(s)
A couple weeks ago when I was at the Japanese Classic Car Show in Irvine, parked alongside the classic RX7's in Mazda's display I spotted this wild-looking MX-6. The normal MX-6 was a front wheel drive coupe that shared a platform with the Ford Probe, but the IMSA GTU race version was a just a bit different....
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