<< Car and Driver mag has this modern day pseudo Can Am series called On Lap
of America where you drive around to half a dozen road race
tracks up to 900 miles apart and then see how fast you can get
around the track. There are no rules (why I call it pseudo Can Am) except
the car must be street legal as far as I can tell.
Run what you brung. You have a limited amount of time to get
from track to track so the car must be durable and reliable.
Guess what? A stock 1993 RX7 finished fourth overall in a field
of 75 cars. Only two 600 HP Viper's and a 500 HP Cobra replicar
beat it.
Car & Driver said very little about the car with a small picture
on page 175 of the Aug. issue and no comment. Typical!
You can not buy a new RX7 and there are no advertising dollars
to be had so why give it publicity? A turbo three rotor RX7
would have blown them all into the weeds.
Paul Lamar >>
You ought to pass this onto Mazda, not blame the magazine. Would you write an
article about who came in 4th, 5th, 35th, 75th, or just the top three winners
like they do in most races. Mazda, is the one, who is not producing the RX7
here in the states with the 13B, 20B, getting their face's rubbed in the mud
by the "two 600 HP Viper's and a 500 HP Cobra replicar" . In the street
racing circle it 's put up, or shut up, and Mazda hasn't been putting up, for
years in this country with a street driven car, with a rotary. We all know
the rotary engine is a better motor, now we have to convince Mazda. I talked
to the Mazda dealer the other day about, the supposly new RX coming out in
2002 here, and he said it will have have a 13B, not a 20B for the states from
all he has heard from Mazda.
Rich Gillen
If I only knew how to do that.
BTW Perry I met your Mazda USA lawyer friend Tom in Klause's hangar yesterday.
He was up for the Camarillo air show with his Long Ez. Do you have his
email address at Mazda USA?
Paul Lamar
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