{"id":3252,"date":"2018-09-07T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T09:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=3252"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:08:23","slug":"porsche-dauer-962-gt-lm-36-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-dauer-962-gt-lm-36-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dauer 962 GT LM #36 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1994 Dauer 962 GT LM #36<\/strong> \nPilots: Y. Dalmas, H. Haywood, M. Baldi \nTeam: Le Mans Porsche Team<\/em> \nRace: 1st overall (GT1 class) at Le Mans in 1994 <\/strong>\nSpark - 43LM94 (resin) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 09\/07\/18<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former racing driver Jochen Dauer founded Jochen Dauer Racing<\/em> in 1987. They initially competed in European championships and occasional World Sports-Prototype Championship races, using the Porsche 962. With the end of sports prototype racing in the early 1990s, the team became Dauer Racing GmbH<\/i>. The idea was to begin a limited production of road cars, including a road-legal version of the 962. The Dauer 962 Le Mans was revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1993<\/a> (4\u201914\u201d video).  Dauer made an outstanding car, since basically it was a street-legal race car. The model was a total success, and Porsche took notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Dauer 962 could go over 400 km\/h!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
With the end of Group C, the general interest in prototype racing was consequently in free fall. And that worried the Automobile Club de l’Ouest<\/em>. So in 1993 ACO allowed the re-introduction of production-based grand tourer-style cars. However, the rules did not <\/i>specify a minimum number of road-going examples for homologation. Clever Porsche didn’t miss the loophole created, and right after the Frankfurt Motor Show, approached Dauer. The idea was for Dauer to develop a racing version of their road car while Porsche would provide full factory support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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To be race-legal the engine received air ristrictors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This racing version was called the Dauer 962 GT LM<\/b>. Dauer used nearly the same engine as the racing 962, Porsche’s Type-935<\/a>. It was a water-cooled 2994 cm\u00b3 flat-6 with two KKK turbochargers, rated at about 600 hp. The chassis was also the same one from the original 962, but the body was completely new. To make things lighter, a carbon fiber & Kevlar body was used. Basically, to make the car legal for Le Mans, only three modifications to the road car were necessary. It received narrower tires, a 120 l fuel tank and air restrictors to the engine (though without them the engine produced 730 hp!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Is that a Porsche? Maybe not, yet Stuttgart counts the win as theirs…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Dauer built three cars<\/a>, and Porsche had all three in their works team. Although only two raced while the third was the reserve car. Chassis #GT003 became car #36<\/a>, and piloted by Yannick Dalmas, Hurley Haywood and Mauro Baldi, it brought Porsche\u2019s 13th victory at La Sarthe*. Afterwards ACO wised up and closed the loophole by stipulating a minimum number of cars built for homologation. With that, the 24 Heures du Mans<\/i> of 1994 was the only race that the car ever competed in. So the Dauer 962 was born a race car, became a street-legal road car and became a race car again  \ud83e\udd28. Such a convoluted history for such a nice car\u2026 In 1:43 form things are simpler: it\u2019s an average Spark. In other words, it’s a GREAT model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*: Depending on your viewpoint, that\u2019s debatable. Though the car was born a 962 (Porsche), it was Dauer<\/em> who made it into the 962 GT LM. That\u2019s the car that won the race, Porsche only gave factory support. The widespread view is that it\u2019s a Porsche model. However, technically speaking, I think you could argue if it really was a “Porsche” victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1994 Dauer 962 GT LM #36 Pilots: Y. Dalmas, H. Haywood, M. Baldi Team: Le Mans Porsche Team Race: 1st overall (GT1 class) at Le Mans in 1994 Spark – 43LM94 (resin) Published 09\/07\/18 Former racing driver Jochen Dauer founded Jochen Dauer Racing in 1987. They initially competed in European championships and occasional World Sports-Prototype … Continue reading “Dauer 962 GT LM #36 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15397,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252\/revisions\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}