The 1968 Marathon De la Route , a gruelling 84-hour event authorized by the FIA, occured at Nuburgring circuit in Germany on August 21 1968. The Track had been 22.8km very long, and included a continuously uneven area and corners of several characteristics. Mazda delivered a group two Cosmo Sport (export model title:110S) as a result of this tough competition, to exhibit the powerful, durability and reliability of those completely new rotary motor. The Long-awaited rotary engined Cosmo Sport was in reality launched regarding japanese market in-may 1967. Vehicle quantity 18 have now been driven by Yoshimi Katayama, Masami Katakura and Nobuo Koga, while Belgian motorists Elde Deprez and Jiper were through the wheel of car amount 19. Although both Cosmo Sport completed a lot of the competition with no severe dilemmas, automobile amount 18 was in fact unexpectedly forced to retire just 150 miniutes ahead of the fminish due to a broken staying backside axle shaft. Another Cosmo Sport survived the 84-hour battle, doing 4th overall in its first competitive battle. For the 59 starts, simply 26 cars completed this grueling battle.
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