The Mazda 717C is a prototype racing car built for Mazdaspeed for the 24 Hours of Le Mans under the Group C Junior formula. It was the first racecar built...

prototype Mazda RX-3 251 (1979) Mazda RX-7 252 (1980) Mazda RX-7 253 (1981) Mazda RX-7 254 (1982) Mazda 717C (1983) MCS Guppy (1983) Mazda 727C (1984) Mazda 737C...

and another DNF. The RX-7 Le Mans effort was replaced by the 717C prototype for 1983. Mazda began racing RX-7s in the IMSA GTU series in 1979. In its first...

final evolution of the initial Mooncraft built design dating back to the 717C. It again used a 2-rotor 13B Wankel engine. Two 737Cs were entered in the...

The Mazda 727C is a prototype racing car that was built for Mazdaspeed for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Group C2 class. It replaced the 717C in 1984...

for Mazda at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans as the final round of the ATCC at Lakeside was held the same weekend as the French classic (the Mazda 717C he...

Skyline Turbo C 86G 1986 C1 87G [ja] 1987 C1 88G [ja] 1987 C1 88S 1988 C1 Mazda 717C 1983 C Jr 727C 1984 C2 737C 1985 C2 757 1987 C2 767 1988 C2 767B 1989...

from Mazda. The Group C design was aimed for the new Junior class. The new 717C was designed by the technical team under Takuya Yura at Mazda's in-house...

Sehcar SH C6 32 26 DNF C Junior 60 Mazdaspeed Yojiro Terada Pete Lovett Mazda 717C 32 27 DNF B 95 Equipe Alméras Frères Jean-Marie Alméras Roland Biancone...

this race, which also serves as the World Sports Car Championship. A Mazda 717C, an Aruba AR2, a Rotec M1C BMW, and two MCS cars from the lower Group...

to their own specifications. The car's windscreen is reused from the Mazda 717C, another Group C2 car built by Mooncraft. Teams may choose whatever engine...

and stable. However, in the C-Junior class alongside the AR2 with the Mazda 717C by Yōjirō Terada and Peter Lovett and a Harrier RX83C, only two other...

Car Class Laps Pos. Class Pos. 1983 Mazdaspeed Jeff Allam James Weaver Mazda 717C C Jr. 267 18th 2nd 1996 Team Bigazzi Team BMW Motorsport Jacques Laffite...

Thierry Boutsen 2, 5 Jonathan Palmer 3–4, 7 Keke Rosberg 3 Mazdaspeed Mazda 717C Mazda 13B 1.3 L 2-rotor D 16 Yojiro Terada 6 Takashi Yorino 6 Pierre Dieudonné...

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class Pos. 1983 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Steve Soper James Weaver Mazda 717C C Jr 267 18th 2nd...

Entrant Car Engine Tyre No. Drivers Rounds Mazdaspeed Mazda 717C Mazda 13B 1.3 L 2-Rotor D 60 Yojiro Terada 2, 4 Pete Lovett 2 Yoshimi Katayama 4 Takashi...

Moffat in a factory supported Mazda RX-7. His previous visits to the race were in 1977 when he spectacularly rolled his Mazda RX-3 at Murray's Corner on...

Laps Pos. Class pos. 1983 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Jeff Allam Steve Soper Mazda 717C C Jr. 267 18th 2nd 1985 Richard Lloyd Racing Richard Lloyd Jonathan Palmer...

L Turbo I4 11 Masahiro Hasemi D 2–3 Kenji Tohira 2–3 Mazdaspeed Mazda Mazda 717C Mazda RE13B 1.3 L Twin Turbo 2-rotor 16 Yojiro Terada D 3 Takashi Yorino...

class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona on two occasions, including in the Mazda RX-7's debut race in 1979, scoring a GTU class win at fifth place overall...

Oguchi 3–4 Setrab Racing by Yours Mazda Mazda 717C Mazda RE13B 1.3 L 2-rotor 7 Takashi Yorino D 1–2 Hideki Okada 1–2 Mazda 727C Takashi Yorino 3 Hideki Okada...

Championship, and became the second Mazda-powered prototype to score a class win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans after the 717C triumphed in the same C2 class at...

round. Mazda continued its programme in the junior C2 class. The works team, Mazdaspeed, brought two cars of the latest development of the 717C chassis...