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15 Nov 2001, 01:01 (Ref:174757)
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What was the story behind the "Dauer" Porsche 962
Why is the 1994 Porsche 962 refered to as a "Dauer Porsche"? It seems to me just to be the latest version of the 962 from the Porsche factory. Is it true that the car was listed under the GT banner?!?
Can anyone tell me what the deal was there? |
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15 Nov 2001, 01:41 (Ref:174764)
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Chuck Dressing gives a little insight into it here
http://www.speedvision.com/pub/artic...00609cd09.html |
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15 Nov 2001, 15:39 (Ref:174922)
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I could not get the link to work, but I think the Porsche 962 was being regulated out of racing by new homologation rules. Dauer stepped in and built several road versions of the Porsche 962 to satisfy these rules and kept the 962 alive in GTP racing. I remember seeing pictures of the road version in Road & Track. It used a seriously detuned version of the leMans engine. Kind of the same thing Porsche did with the GT1 and Mercedes did with the CLK GTR.
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15 Nov 2001, 19:07 (Ref:175070)
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Re: What was the story behind the "Dauer" Porsche 962
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The ImposterGT's!! Leaving aside changes to the Le Mans circuit for once, probably the worst mistake the ACO made in many years was allowing the Dauer Porsches to race in the GT class. Whilst Dauer may have made a road version, the 962GT which won the race in '94 was not that much different to the 962s which had raced previously. Being classified as a GT, of course, enabled the car to run with a larger air restrictor. The car was estimated to have an additional 100bhp on tap in comparison with the Courages and Toyotas in the LMP1/Group C Class. Although the imposter GT's had to carry more weight (50kgs) and skinnier tyres, they were essentially still Group C cars running in the wrong category. The Dalmas, Haywood and Baldi car won the race, beating the SARD Toyota of Irvine, Martini and Krosnoff by one lap. The Toyota though was very much the "moral" victor, if such a thing exists or means anything. The nearest true Group C Porsche 962 was that of the ADA Engineering team, which finished, unclassified, 155 laps behind. It was a great race weekend - just a great shame about the end result. 
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15 Nov 2001, 19:35 (Ref:175084)
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Re: What was the story behind the "Dauer" Porsche 962
Anybody fancy buying one?
 http://www.racecar.co.uk/dauer/ Jochen Dauer has also bought the EB110 project (née Bugatti) lock, stock, and barrel, and offers brand new hand-built cars for US$500000 a piece: http://www.eb110.com |
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15 Nov 2001, 19:42 (Ref:175090)
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Team Crouton
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Re: Re: What was the story behind the "Dauer" Porsche 962
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 Or the Bugatti.....
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