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Jul 3, 2002 | 05:08 PM

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BlackSport0187

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Originally posted by 7 Dreams

Typical american ignorance.......if it isn't in america, it must not exist.

There is no need to be a dick. He wasn't doubting the fact that there are '92 RX-7s, he was saying that he did not know that before.

Isaac

Jul 3, 2002 | 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by m_forys
So when the car that is clearly faster than you at the race track breaks down do you say you had a better car? I have been to Le Mans and I will tell you that it has alot to do with luck. There are so many factors that come into play that luck is a part of it. This years race was a great case in point. The gravel all over the track created tire problems, does this mean that because someone got a flat 2 miles from their pit that the car was engineered as well as the others? Also, the car was not designed by Mazda, they provided the engine. The suspension and the rest were handled by an english company. I will agree with anyone who says that the engine in that car was a marvel of engineering.

The whole point of racing is to be reliably fast. Who cares if you blow away everyone for the first half of the race, if you can't finish it doesn't matter. Mazda had the best combination of speed and reliability, as stated before, that is why they won and that is why they deserved to win.

Mazda may have contracted out for the engineering of certain aspects of the car, but the powerplant was all Mazda. There is no arguing that. Without their dedication to the wankel a win at Lemans would not have been possible. By the way, do you think all manufacturers do all their own engineering on their race cars? I doubt it.

Isaac