1994 Dauer-Porsche 962LM GT1 1:18
This was the idea of Norbert Singer at Porsche. He had seen Jochen Dauer was converting old Group C Porsche 962s to road cars. He had also expected that the Mclaren F1 road car would enter Le Mans in 1994. Porsche had already had a look at Thomas Bscher’s F1 road car and formed the opinion that nothing they could build off the 911 Turbo model would beat the exotic BMW engined carbon fibre F1.
Singer’s idea? Let’s help Dauer homologate his road car, then we can do a race version of it and enter the GT1 category at Le Mans - and win!!!
This was quite the controversy and the Le Mans organisers were most upset, they raised numerous objections which Porsche clarified and met. For instance, the overhanging rear wing was considered a “bumper bar”.
It worked quite well and courtesy of an unlucky Toyota technical failure, it won outright. This was the last victory of the 962 model. Ironically Gordon Murray’s McLaren F1 GTR didn’t enter Le Mans in 1994 at all. It instead dominated in 1995.
Relatively few road cars were built, the majority went to Brunei, some of them seen recently in the big photo leak. The road cars were powered by heavily revised 3.0L twin-turbo type-935 engines at 730hp, the top speed was a claimed 404km/h. Turbo boost was adjustable and power could be dialed back. The weight was just over 1000kg.
