Race cars aren't often remembered unless they mean something special; usually, it's the team or the driver that holds the ...

The rotary engine, a unique and unconventional design, has provided Mazda with remarkable advantages in the world of racing.

The Wankel, better known as the rotary engine, has always held a unique place in the world of performance cars. Compact, lightweight, and capable of high revs, a rotary offered an alternative to ...

This is what it takes to maintain a 9,000-rpm racing engine.

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Rotary engines differ from conventional ones in many respects — and one of them is the fact that they use two different spark plugs. Here's why.