The C284 made its debut at the 1984 Monza 1000, where Mallock, Scottish David Duffield and Mike Wilds qualified the car twentyfirst and finished the race tenth, second in the C2 class. After Monza the car started two more rounds of the World Championship, Silverstone and Le Mans, didn’t finish both of them. Had its last race at Brands Hatch, in the 1984 British Grand Prix Thundersports supporting race, where it qualified second and retired because of a bad crash, that totalled the car.
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 as an evolution of the Mooncraft-built design, and used the same 2-rotor 13B Wankel engine as the previous model. Two 727Cs were entered in the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 4th and 6th in the C2 class. However, a pair of Lola T616s run by B.F. Goodrich Company used the same Mazda engine and were successful in beating both 727Cs, claiming 1st and 3rd.
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