{"id":6883,"date":"2019-10-04T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=6883"},"modified":"2020-01-04T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:02:59","slug":"dauer-962-gt-lm-test-car-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/dauer-962-gt-lm-test-car-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dauer 962 GT LM test car – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1994 Dauer 962 GT LM test car<\/strong>\nSpark - 43LM94 (resin) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 10\/04\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dauer 962 GT LM #36 (09\/07\/18)<\/a>:
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<\/em>. 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).\u00a0 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>
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\u2019Ouest<\/em>. So in 1993 ACO allowed the re-introduction of production-based grand tourer-style cars. However, the rules did not <\/em>specify a minimum number of road-going examples for homologation. Clever Porsche didn\u2019t 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><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Looks good in stealth livery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This racing version was called the Dauer 962 GT LM<\/strong>. Dauer used nearly the same engine as the racing 962, Porsche\u2019s 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!).
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Spark replicated a rough carbon fiber aspect on the body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Dauer 962 GT was an exclusive Le Mans effort, made specifically for La Sarthe. The idea was to have two cars for the race, so Dauer built three – chassis #GT001, #GT002 and #GT003. Though the project started in late 1993, by May of 1994 Dauer had only one car ready. Therefore, for the Le Mans test sessions on May 8th, only car #GT002 was ready. Hans J. Stuck was the pilot, and he finished in third in the GT1 class. For the actual race, in June, #GT002 finished in third place overall.
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Test car and winning car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Spark reproduced in scale #GT002, as Stuck piloted it in May during the Le Mans test sessions<\/a>. As expected, the model is top notch, very well replicated in 1:43. I thought it would be a nice acquisition for the Test Cars wing of the W-143 Garage, and was not disappointed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1994 Dauer 962 GT LM test car Spark – 43LM94 (resin) Published 10\/04\/19 Dauer 962 GT LM #36 (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 Championship races, using the Porsche 962. With the end of sports prototype racing in the early … Continue reading “Dauer 962 GT LM test car – 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-6883","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\/6883","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=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6883\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}