The jap rotary is in Mazda carsOriginally Posted by QuattroMan
The jap rotary is in Mazda carsOriginally Posted by QuattroMan
The German companies stopped developing the roatary so it languishes in '80s technology. The Japanese rotary continued development and investment and worksOriginally Posted by QuattroMan
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
See the table at the end of the post to see "astoudnign" for reliabilityOriginally Posted by Fiorano
erm, Corvettes were entered in Le Mans as far back as 1960 and you I think are forgetting that ( or weren't aware ).I included American Lemans Series (as piddly as the LMES-ahem ) as this is total races it entered and won.. the 787 did not race as often at LeMans- of course it did win. so did the corvettes-
I searched the CLub L'Ouest site and found it .....
CHEVROLET (USA) 40 16 40%
The full table is at http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...ques_9_gb.html
and the table confirms Audi now wins over Mazda, so the Mazda-acolites can't make the Rotary claim any more ( But Mazda have done 50% more cars, wonder if Audi coudl have maintained with more cars ?? We'll never know )
AUDI (D) 22 17 77%
MAZDA (J) 34 24 71%
Sadly this isn't the full story as it doens't seperate out the different models I concur that the the new cars that have only competed for a couple of races will have higher ratio - ie DBA are 100%, but only competing in 1 makes hte statistics invalid !!
There are some interesting stats their for the nerds like me who love trivia ... eg ...
Best marque performances in a single race
JAGUAR in 1957
5 Cars entered
5 Cars at the finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th et 6th)
PORSCHE in 1982
3 Official cars
3 Cars at the finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
PEUGEOT in 1993
3 voitures officielles
3 Cars at the finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
AUDI in 2000 et 2002
3 Official cars
3 Cars at the finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
AUDI in 2004
4 Privat cars
4 Cars at the finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th)
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
Yes Corvettes have been racing in LeMans for a long time, but its the LSx C5 Corvettes were talking about isnt it? (LSx vs rotary)Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine
Well not really in this side-track.Originally Posted by Slicks
I posted the much cited Mazda are the most reliable Le Mans race car.
The Corvette got named. Well the problem is it has been entered a lot mroe times than youngster may realise.
If it comes down to only the C5 then you get into the is it statistically valid given how few entries there have been of that car -- so hence DBA and Luchini can claim that as they both are at 100% !!!!No, not really as was reminded in #163, rgibbs actually wanted the Rx-8 rotary and the GTO V8. it's LS2 isnt' it and the vette is LS1,2 and 7 ?? ( we're getting as bad as the Aussies )(LSx vs rotary)
Last edited by Matra et Alpine; 03-29-2006 at 05:34 PM.
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