Das verbotene Triebwerk: Wie ein japanischer Rotor ganz Le Mans demontierte

The Wankel Engine Victory: How Mazda won Le Mans while Mercedes failed. A Japanese prototype with a pistonless engine, developed based on a German invention that all other manufacturers had abandoned, started from nineteenth on the grid in 1991 and finished the world's toughest endurance race as the winner by two laps. The story of the Mazda 787B is the story of an obsession that lasted thirty years, of a German engineer named Felix Wankel, whose idea was first buried by his own country and then brought to its highest triumph by a Japanese manufacturer, and of a race that Mercedes, Jaguar, and Peugeot lost without ever really standing a chance. Music in this video: Eyes of Glory - Aakash Gandhi, When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Cooper Cannell. Historical photographs in this video are from archive.org and are in the public domain.