Mazda needs to drop this rotary nonsense. That hood looks long enough to drop an I6 in there and that would be something a lot more interesting than a rotary.

Because every sports car person has to be an anorak and split hairs: The original GT500 = 500 Horsepower/GT300 = 300 HP formula isn’t really the case anymore. Actual HP figure are hard to come by, but it’s been suggested the GT500 cars are well over 700 these days. And at Fuji, they’re actually not too far off from…

Or at least don’t parrot the same old tired cliches.

There is absolutely no advatange or benefit of having FWD in racing applications.

This. I’m sick of the “LOLZ ITS FWD AND STUPID” derp derp that seems to follow this car everywhere. Have some fucking appreciation for engineers pushing the envelope, even if you don’t like the way they’re doing it.

They can’t exploit the aero rules in the way they are without an extreme front weight bias, which means FWD is required to do it.

1947 - 1949 Indy 500 winners were front wheel drive.

The Nissan is developed in the US. It’s a lot easier for the German-based OEMs (which is all of them) to go test on the Nurburgring than it is for Nissan.

Why do you think they hope to achieve anything different from what all the other OEMs hope to achieve in LMP1. None of their cars are any more relevant to their street cars.

hhmmmmmmmeehhhhh. This is racing, and regs should keep RWD/FWD cars in the same class fairly competitive. All they’re really doing is changing which wheels are powered by the combustion engine and which ones are hybrid powered, it’s still an AWD LMP1 hybrid like every other car on the grid.

UGH. YES. I love this thing so much. So so much. This shot makes it look so mean.