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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 15, 2016 21:13:13 GMT
An easy one to start  Does anyone know the connection between this Mazda and 2009 F1 champ Jenson Button?  |
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Post by Horney on Mar 15, 2016 21:50:31 GMT
He's driven it at Goodwood FoS?
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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 15, 2016 22:01:46 GMT
Nope!
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Post by Reechard on Mar 15, 2016 22:52:28 GMT
He owns it?
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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 15, 2016 23:12:17 GMT
Nope
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Post by trackiebear454 on Mar 15, 2016 23:22:21 GMT
is it that loads ofthe buttons in it were made by jenson?
my slightly more serious answer is that his father was on the mazda driving team at the le-mans they won with it ?
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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 16, 2016 7:13:28 GMT
This version of this car didn't win Le Mans.
Clue: what happened after the rotary engine was outlawed?
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Post by Ptichka on Mar 16, 2016 20:59:39 GMT
Unsure how it links to JB, but if its the MXR01 it's got a Judd V10 hasn't it?
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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 16, 2016 22:03:30 GMT
Getting very close  |
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Post by FFS Corders on Mar 16, 2016 23:55:36 GMT
Easy. His ex mrs is japanese and so is the mazda. Done
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Post by titch on Mar 17, 2016 2:36:09 GMT
Easy. His ex mrs is japanese and so is the mazda. Done Both she and the Mazda are nice to look at, too. I think you cracked it there. |
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Post by Horney on Mar 17, 2016 9:30:25 GMT
I bet they both make a nice noise when thrashed as well.  |
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Post by FFS Corders on Mar 17, 2016 10:16:48 GMT
i'm going to call this one a team effort |
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Post by moro on Mar 17, 2016 11:52:22 GMT
^^^ Great effort Wasn't there someone called Judd who looked like Jenson? |
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Post by AndyMk2 on Mar 17, 2016 12:24:05 GMT
So close, yet so far.
The car is really a Jaguar XJR-14 which was designed by Ross Brawn and built by Tom Walkinshaw.
After the rotary was banned, and Jaguar quit at the end of '91, Mazda had no car and no engine to defend their Le Mans crown.
This led the factory race team, Mazdaspeed, to repaint the Jag and stick an F1 engine in the back.
It didn't win in 92 but it did finish 4th.
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le sigh
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le sigh
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