Mazdaspeed - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

Before Mazda made Miatas and built Millenias, they raced with fickle mechanics and motorsports and made many wistful trips to Lomar's Magnificent 24 Hours. What started as a small racing team ended up becoming a high-performance brand. This is all you

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, it was 1967 and Mazda had just started selling the Cosmo, no, no, Timmy Turner's fairy godfather, the new car, the two-door sports coupe with the new rotary engine. , 10-8 cos, when the Cosmo arrived. Mazda Auto Tokyo Japan's largest Mazda dealership, one particular employee noticed that the employee was former racing driver Takayoshi Ohashi Ohashi saw potential in the strange AG cosmo space and convinced a dealership to let him start a independent racing team called mazda sports corner that Mazda has been doing. quite well in races throughout Asia and were eager to demonstrate the reliability of their Wankel rotary engine to everyone else instead of using pistons that go up and down.

Rotary engines use rotating metal beads called rotors to compress air and fuel inside an oval casing. With the help of the factory in 1968, Mazda's sports team entered the cosmos on the low route of an 84-hour long marathon day. You heard me, 84 fucking hours straight of racing around the fucking Nurburgring, talk about jumping right into the fire, the Cosmo race cars would get stuck for the most part. With only small changes, such as an extended wheelbase for greater stability, power brakes and a larger grille opening for cooling, Mazda put powertrain engineers Kunio Matsuura and Taka Haruko Be Okawa on the project to increase power for Mazda's sports corner team, they gave the 10 a rotary engine and aluminum casing to save weight and modified the intake to make an additional 20 horsepower per one hundred and thirty spurs, to everyone's surprise, at the time 80, the Mazdas were in fourth place and fit behind a couple of Porsche 911s and a Lancia Fulvia, a Cosmo, crashed, but the other finished just outside the podium, in fourth place, which is a surprising result for a Brand new car with a brand new engine in an incredibly tough endurance race.

Mazda immediately saw that the sports corner of Mazda could help them not only gain more brand recognition in the world but also help develop their production cars. They used what they learned in pre-race testing to make improvements to the 1968 Cosmo trams, and everyone was so excited about the results of their first race that they couldn't. wait to come back for more information Mazda helped them Mazda helped them Mazda helped Mazda's sports corner team race everywhere during the 1970s at home in Japan and Europe in the 24 Hours of the Mall and the 24 Hours of the spa and in the USA at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring, when Mazda launched new models, Mazda's sports corner raced with them in 1978, the Mazda rx-7 took the racing world by storm.

Racing in the United States, they dominated the EMSA series of the International Motor Sports Association, where the RX-7 would accumulate a total of 100 victories in the next 12 years. Overall, the Mazda had great grain, but in what they were still left. shorts was at the prestigious 24 Hours of LeMans as Nolan staring at a tall glass of milk, oh, she and Mazda concentrated on the mall and became even more determined to conquer the Beast Mazda bought the majority of the shares in the little racing business and Ohashi changed the name from Mazda sports corner to Mazda

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(the name of the episode in 1982 the team finally had a promising breakthrough when its RX-7 at 54 came in 14th place in that year's Lamothe 24 Hours like Sookie and I

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very well that long-distance relationships are difficult to continue, so Mazda asked Ohashi and Mazda to move with them to their headquarters in Hiroshima.

In 1983, they were about to get serious about winning them all together when the FIA ​​announced the new racing classes and Mazda Speed ​​took the opportunity to move from production cars to the fastest Group C sports prototypes. Group C was one of the gnarliest road races. classes, these things were fire-breathing eardrums and destroying monsters like that, nothing and they were incredibly fast, screams, and someone else has a moment when the rotating prototypes seven-one-seven c 72 7c and 7 3 7c with which They ran for the next few years they did. Britain is fine, but Nissan and Toyota were starting to use turbo v6s and it soon became obvious that Mazda was going to

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more power than their little 2-rotor Wankel 13b could produce even though Mazda had been working with the team from Hoshi for years to the extent of their factory support were really just two guys working full time on racing engines.

Nobuhiro Yamamoto and Junichi Bunn Emoto sat down with their boss Noriyuki Carrillo and decided that what they needed was another rotary, but the idea was not officially approved, so they had to work secretly after normal work hours, something like If my father secretly worked on his other two families, the secret three-rotor engine stopped being so secret to Mazda executives and they gave it the official green light the following year, it's like the guys were just telling the truth. -of-the-box and it will usually work, mash the like button if you hate secrets, subscribe if you have some soon, They had a new 13 G rotary making 450 Hurst persona at 9000 rpm ready to go for years to come.

I had better results and class wins with the 13 G in the 757 prototype, but still no overall wins and this LeMans win is a horde, what was the Zoom Zoomy car company going to do? Do me, add another wheel, oh yeah, add another rotor, a 500. Horsepower for the 13 J rotor engine was incorporated into the next-generation Mazda 767 prototypes in 1988. The following year, they pumped the 13 J M engine up to 630 as a spare, but it still wasn't enough power with Mazda's senior executive, yes. OH, Tatsu told me he was watching. From the stands of the 767s they placed seventh, ninth and twelfth in the morning 24 hours of 1989.

All of those finishes secured Mazda the EMSA GTP class title, an impressive feat for any team, but Tuk Satomi has not yet He was satisfied and asked Mazda's speed team what they did. He needed to win and veteran driver Pierre Du Dôme put another wheel to the metal no, he said, he said 100 more horsepower, sorry, no need to complain, just like with a mandate from the top, Mazda is now an engine team of 8-man race built as one of the most glorious. screaming banshees from the Odyssey the loudest banshees from halo I wanted to make a reference to Homer's Odyssey but my team said no, let's make a Halo reference because you'll like that the four rotors are 26b Wanko in full whale the engine made a The incredible 930 Hurst had a redline of ten thousand three hundred rpm with only two point six liters of displacement, but in a 24 hour race things had to be reliable, so in the race the engine only did 700 for Spurs, not It reached one hundred.

Satomi ordered more ponies than they showed, but the engine was smaller, lighter and more efficient in the previous 13 JMEs. Oh, he and he made some of the most incredible noises ever to come out of a car. Listen to this clip. Mazda speed enthusiastically entered the 787s at Lamothe in 1990, but heartbreakingly neither crossed the finish line. They were knocked down, but they got back up, made the chassis stiffer, improved the powerband and reliability of the engine, and added carbon brake discs, a competition-wide first. Mazda's speed was in the 1991 24 Hours, all with two updated 787 Bs and a 787 from the previous season, it would be the last year they were allowed to enter their signature rotary engine, it was announced that the following year's rules were going to change their class and mandate 3.5 liter engines like the F1 cars had all of Mazda's racing hopes and dreams hashtag hope the dreams traveled in three cars they knew they had reliability on their side, so the team gave them told the drivers of the fastest 787b, the orange and green number 55 car to push hard at the start, after six hours Mazda Speed ​​was in fourth place behind three Benzes and after 12 hours their Benzes started on Tuesday to brake sick broken cars, it doesn't feel good when I drive it, can we take it to the dealership, no, can we?

We can't afford it, we should have bought the Honda, no, you said you didn't want it and it's not a status symbol. We have to take control to finish the race. I have a lift credit, no, I want to use it on bet number 55. Quick and consistent and with two hours left, he took the lead and never gave up. Nearly twenty years of dedication finally paid off. I do what feels like Mazda becoming the only Japanese automaker to win the 24 Hours of LeMans, which requires some lightning. Since the FIA ​​banned the rotary in 1992, Mazda Speed ​​turned its attention to supporting grassroots motorsports rather than professional racing.

Mazda rx-7 Miatas were crawling all over the race tracks and Mazda Speed ​​set out to develop and sell Go Fast parts for race cars. In 1999, Mazda took its relationship with Mazda Speed ​​to the next level and bought it outright. They continued to kill in motorsports, the tough but fast Mazdas had been absent from the production line throughout Ohio, finally, a couple of board engineers at Mazda R&D in the south. California decided it was time to improve things and they began working on manufacturing faster versions of the Mazda model. His first idea was to take the popular but underpowered protected MP3, one of the best-handling front-wheel drive cars of all time, and slap it in the face. turbo, the 2003 Mazda Protege had the same racing suspension setup as the mp3, but made a much more entertaining 170.

It spurs the 2-liter four-cylinder engine with a unique rear spoiler with front air dam and fast-heart wheels. the wheels were early 2000s, they made the wheels that were on the fast and furious Supra, yeah you like Danny, the perverted little wheel, your nose, some of you were there like cleaning your koi pond, you heard who supra, some of you saw One Punch Man. you are like you know how to listen to the word super the protégé was a dyeing platform and the first Mazda speed model disappeared just a year later a Mazda speed MX-5 miata was ready to take its place in 2004 since the 1990 Miata came out.

Enthusiasts cried for more power, well, they finally got it in the form of a 1.8-liter turbocharged engine to make 178 horsepower. It had a six-speed manual transmission with LSD. Stiffer springs and stabilizer bars. Bilstein shock absorbers. 17-inch wheels and wider tires. It pulled point nine and eight G. on the skidpad and all for only $900 more than a regular non-turbo Miata, you can't even buy a turbo kit for that, as good as it sounds, the Mazda speed Miata died after just two years, in 2005, the new Mazda speed six. Not only did it have a turbocharged 2.3-liter 270 four-cylinder engine for its Spurs, it also had active torque-splitting all-wheel drive, but unlike the Mazda speed Protege, the speed six was a high-performance sedan. performance for adults, it had a discreet trunk spoiler and a hidden Intercooler, perfect for speed lovers and adults who wanted to go unnoticed, but in reality there was no market for a mid-size sedan that was not pleasant to travel or go out on. the track, so the Mazda Speed ​​Six also fell behind after just two. years of what's wrong with the Mazda 3?

I'm already starting, friend, stay calm. I got excited. I said it had sold a lot since it came out in 2003, maybe they could turbocharge one of those too. It's a great question, the 2006

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3 arrived. With the same engine, the six speed and put out 263 Hertzberg pointing directly at the VW GTI. Gear three was a fairly tame hatch but would rip the steering wheel out of your hands if you weren't careful. Bigger wheels, different bumpers and the rear spoiler were all that gave away the fact that you were driving a Mazda 3 with bite, an LSD and a sports suspension along with all that power in a light and practical hatchback made the Mazdaspeed3 its first real success. at the box office in 2010.

The smiling new second-generation MazdaSpeed3 kept the momentum going now that it had a hood scoop for better airflow to the intercooler and a larger mouth to look happier while strapping it to your seat. I'm tuning, it was modified, the interior became a little more refined and it also gained a few kilos, but none of that changed the personality of the Speed ​​Three and for around 25,000 bones it was such a big deal that people bought them up that Mazda put the turbo into hibernationin the third generation. The 2014 mazda3 was launched without a Mazda Speed ​​model and the name is dormant now, but we expect it to return when the fourth generation comes out in 2019.

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