For comparison's sake, Mazda's own Le Mans-winning 787 prototype utilized a four-rotor Wankel. Another four-rotor was constructed by BMI Racing's "Mad Mike," whose engines are worked on by Pulse ...

Mr Wankel eventually persuaded German motorcycle ... One of the most iconic race cars to ever succeed at the fabled 24 Hours of Le Mans was the Mazda 787b, which claimed victory in 1991.

Of those allowed, the most notable is the Mazda 787B, which won the 1991 24 hours of Le Mans race. What does the future hold for the Wankel rotary engine? Most likely more of the same.

Amidst the Space Race of the 1960s, this Mazda aimed for the stars - paving the way for other rotaries in the Mazda orbit.

The Mazda Furai was a futuristic concept with motorsport ambitions, before it met its untimely demise during a Top Gear road ...

but when it came to the 1991 Mazda 787B that was unleashed in February's ALMS DLC, the Le Mans-winning racer was just too loud. In fact, the 700-horsepower 2.7-liter Wankel-engined legend with ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

No, it’s not a 787B, and certainly not the 1991 Le Mans-winning example ... learned on a visit to Mazda’s North American heritage fleet basement, the firm’s Wankel-engined Group C cars ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s smooth ... producing 197 horsepower. In 1991, Mazda entered two 787Bs into the 24 Hours of Le Mans and made history as the first Japanese-made ...