Mazda 757
Built by Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. in preparation for the 1986 season, this car originally appeared in Lucky [Strike] livery at the 1000km of Silverstone race in May '86
This fresh built car was piloted by Irishman David Kennedy along side Mazda's own Takashi Yorino
Just days later, the car was at Le Mans for testing before the big event. Kennedy and Dieudonné got valuable seat time along with Mazda test driver Takashi Yorino.
Fellow Irishman Mark Galvin joined Kennedy and Dieudonné at the wheel for the race, but unfortunately the car retired due to gearbox issues.
The car returned to Le Mans in 1987 with the same driver line up, where it acheived 7th overall and 1st in it's class.
The car was shipped to Japan, where it competed in the Fuji 1000km in 1989 in full yellow NWB livery with an all Japanese driver line up.
We tracked the car down in Japan last year and shipped it back to our workshop for a sympathetic restoration which was completed just in time for the big Mazda celebrations at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
A sad day at the shop as we bid goodbye to the firey little Mazda which is heading to Switzerland to it's new owner imminently. We didn't want to let it go without a reminder of that outrageous rotary engine, so we took a little video...