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Le Mans, 1991. The Mazdaspeed team has been chasing gold at the legendary endurance race for the better part of a decade, and the team can only watch on anxiously as the clock ticks past midnight. With a looming ban on rotary engines, they know that the rotary-powered 787b is their last chance at victory. And for now, roughly every 3 and a half minutes, the nervous silence is broken as the distinctive 4-rotor engine screams with a ferocity down the pit straight. How did one of the most legendary race cars of all time come to be? How did Takayoshi Ohashi lead Mazda to become the first Japanese manufacturer to conquer Le Mans? And how has Mazda become the company it is today? Find out today, on the final episode of Past Gass history of Mazda!

0:00 Intro
0:50 Cinematic intro
2:11 Indeed
2:37 Impressions of the 787B
3:41 Cast intros
4:52 Nolans big update / Gump mindset
9:57 First efforts as Mazdaspeed
15:05 onX Off Road
16:10 Shopify
17:20 A new team
27:35 The 787B
35:22 Indeed
36:29 BetterHelp
37:29 The car is ready
40:10 The Race
49:00 1992 to Ohashi
51:21 2000s and beyond
54:56 Takeaways
57:41 Listener mail / Outro

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