Autosport (Digital)

Autosport (Digital)

1 Issue, 27/02/20

Murray’s Mazda gets a new engine

ROAD RALLYING Two-time National Formula Ford 1600 champion and Festival winner Niall Murray is installing a Honda S2000 engine into his own Mazda MX-5 to boost his road rally efforts in 2020. Long-time road rally competitor Murray has recently used a Toyota Starlet in Targa and multi-venue events, and hopes the upgraded MX-5 will be ready for Wales’s late-July 116 Targa Tracks Rally. He is undertaking the project with friend and navigator Sam Dolan, son of FF1600 team boss Bernard. “We need something quicker,” said Murray. “The competition’s just moved on over the last couple of years – you have people in 230bhp Yarises and 220bhp MR2s. “The most power people are getting out of the Mazda [MX-5] engine is around 170bhp, and the way mine was going it was probably about 70bhp. So…
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