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Originally Posted by chunterer
The list of Mazda's there is interesting as the only one's I can recall actually racing were Nightingale's which I believe was then taken over by Kimpton and Palmer's which might actually be seen in 'WOCCO's' earlier shot in the Maguire thread. (I'll copy it over to here). Apparently they were very difficult and incredibly expensive to run. I also doubt it's a coincidence that privateers found them to be, er herm, entirely different propositions to the cars they had seen dominate the second class in the previous 2 seasons.......
Plenty to investigate and discuss!!
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The David Palmer car was mainly run in the ETCC with Holman "Les" Blackburn. This pairing even did the Brands Hatch Group C race late in the year. They continued in Group C in 1983 with a Mazda rotary engined Harrier C Junior becoming the first ever team to enter the catagory.
Here in Denmark Preben Kristoffersen raced an RX-7 beginning in 1981, but only by late 1982 had he got the car up to speed, which allowed him to win the national title in 1983.
Jesper