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The Dauer 962 LM was created by Dauer to enter a Group C race car into the new GT1 race class by uninquely reading the rules book the FIA GT1 had.
the car was able to hit close to 250 mph (402 km/h)
It also the last Group C race car that managed to win LeMans 24h
To race it there where road cars build
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1994 Dauer 962 Le Mans
Country of Origin: Germany
Design Info: A mid-engine, rear-wheel drive supercar based upon the Group C prototype race car, the Porsche 962. One of several road cars based around the 962, the Dauer differs from its conceptual siblings in being built around an original 962 race car chassis, instead of bespoke parts like in the Koenig and Schuppan versions. The Dauer 962 also had an updated, more aerodynamic carbon fiber body compared to the original race car (courtesy of Lola Composites), and a proper two-seat road car interior.
Engine Info: The Dauer 962 used a 3.0 liter Type-935 flat six (originally developed for the 935 race cars, and also used in the Porsche 962s). The Dauer version was turbocharged with twin Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch units, and had the racing restrictor plates removed. This allowed for a power output of 720 hp, which in combination with the 5-speed racing gearbox and improved body, was good for 0-60mph in 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 251.4 mph, making it possibly the fastest production car in the world until the Bugatti Veyron (depending on whether one considers the 962 a production car or not.)
Type: The Dauer 962 was a supercar based on a Group C race car, serving as a homologation car for a new GT1 race car. As such, it is most comparable to other the other road cars which spawned GT1 cars, including the McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220, Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion, Mercedes CLK-GTR, and the like.
History: The history of the Dauer 962 Le Mans begins with the creation of the original Porsche 962 in 1984. Based on the already successful 956, the 962 was an update to both improve the 956 and bring it in line with changing racing regulations. A longer wheelbase, chassis-integrated roll cage, and a single turbocharger layout were among the changes made to update the car.
Porsche would end up building almost 100 962 chassis, 75 of which were sold to privateers. One of these privateers was Jochen Dauer Racing, which was formed when founder and race car driver Jochen Dauer purchased a racing team in 1986 from British driver John Fitzpatrick. Racing several 962s, as well as a Zakspeed C1/8, Dauer unfortunately had several disastrous seasons of racing. This was followed by changing rules making the 962 untenable in prototype racing. With his funds drying up and challenges rising, Dauer withdrew from motorsport in 1991.
This left Dauer with a number of 962 chassis and nowhere to race them. He began converting one of the 962s for road use, with the intent of creating a very exclusive (and expensive) supercar. Not the first to create a road version of this car, Dauer’s would nonetheless have the distinction of being truly derived from the race car, built on racing chassis, instead of what amounted to “street-modifed” tribute replicas, or “repli-mods”, like the Schuppan. The first sale-ready Dauer 962 Le Mans would be revealed in 1993 at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
There was an ulterior motive for Jochen Dauer, however. This was a man who wanted to race, and the incoming GT1 regulations were his opportunity. By creating a road car based upon the 962, he could then introduce a new(ish) race car based on the road car, under more lax regulations than the updated rules for prototype cars. His engineers were secretly already working on the racing version, but as is common for such small teams, ran into a snag when they ran out of money.
Enter Norbert Singer, Porsche engineer and namesake of the later Singer Vehicle Design company. Porsche was looking for options to enter Le mans, but was faced with either entering a less competitive version of the 962 in the prototype class (where it would face a severely limited power output and less-than-adequate fuel volume restriction) or developing a 911-based car (which simply wouldn’t be ready fast enough). Singer became aware of Dauer’s project, and being no stranger to Le Mans (or developing road-derived race cars to compete there) he negotiated a partnership funding Dauer’s project so that Porsche could race the car at the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Despite ACO attempts to ban them, the Dauer-Porsche partnership was allowed to enter their two purpose-built race cars into the race. After a dramatic battle with the Toyota LMP1 cars, Dauer and Porsche would be victorious, with the 962s finishing 1st and 3rd against the Toyota 94C-Vs in 2nd and 4th. With this victory, finally, Dauer would be vindicated, and he was able to produce street-legal version of the 962 through 1997, around 10-11 in total.
Why it’s cool/unique/significant: The original 962 is often considered one of the greatest Porsche race cars (or indeed any race cars) in the history of sports car racing. The Dauer effort to convert them to road cars so that they could build a new race car, to get around rules that made the old car obsolete, is an amusing, convoluted story either about how racing regulations can get in the way of good competition, or about a creative way to cheat within the rules, depending on your point of view.
But the real legacy of the Dauer 962 is the exciting years of GT1 racing, producing some of the craziest road and race cars of all time. Though the period only lasted a few years, it gave us legends like the McLaren F1 GTR (a car which Gordon Murray originally had no intent to race), the Porsche 911 GT1 (also developed by Singer), Nissan R390, Toyota GT-One, and many others. Some of these cars may have happened anyway, but the Dauer 962 blazed the path of GT1, building such an extreme road car, purely for the purpose of going racing.
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