Скачать или смотреть FIA WSC 1984 - Road Atlanta 15 laps - Sauber SHS C6 - P17 to P1

Swiss manufacturer Sauber and engineering firm Seger & Hoffman (hence the SHS designation) built the natural aspirated Cosworth V8 powered C6 in 1982. The car entered the C1 class. Its first race was the 1.000 km of Monza. where a broken fuel pump meant a DNF. Its second race was at the Nürburgring for the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft, where an accident caused it to retire once again.
Le Mans saw another DNF, but after that the C6 had mixed results in both WSC and DRM, which earned them a well respected 5th in the World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers. At the end of 1982, Sauber decided to replace the C6 with a newly developed C7.
The BMW powered C7 wasn't very successful and development was abandoned after a brief 1983 season.
Sauber became more successful after partnering up with Mercedes Benz (C8 and onward).
The 2 chassis were sold to Brun Motorsport, where the cars weren't very successful. The name changed to Sehcar C6 and was fitted with a variety of engines, like a 6-cylinder BMW engine, the original Cosworth engine and even a Porsche engine. None of them finished a race.
The Porsche engined Sehcar's first and only finish was in 1984 at the 1.000 km of Silverstone (15th).
However, the C6 was also entered as a C2 class car in 1985 (like the beautiful special liveried #95 in front of me @12:02).
French racer Roland Bassaler purchaced a cheap C6 chassis and fitted the car with a BMW 3,5 liter 6-inline engine. Although he managed to finish 2 races (Le Mans and Spa Francorchamps) in the 1985 season, he scored no points.
He tried his luck again in 1986, where he once again finished twice, but this time he scored a 12th place, and thus championship points, at the Nürburgring race.
After 1986, the car was retired.
Until 1993! Group-C was in trouble. Rule changes caused a lack of participants and the ACO almost begged for entries.
Roland Bassaler entered his C6 in the C2 class for the 24 hours of Le Mans, still fitted with the same BMW engine. The bodywork was revised but still closed. Unfortunately an accident would bring a DNF.
After 1993, Group-C was canceled, but that didn't stop Roland Bassaler from entering the C6 one last time for the 1994 24 hours of Le Mans, but now in the LMP1/C90 class (The ACO again invited older Group-C cars that were banned back in 1991. Porsche took revenge by winning with a "road legal" Dauer 962 in the GT1 class).
The car was renamed Alpha LM and was again fitted, or reunited, with a 1982 (!) Cosworth V8.
If you like a happy ending, then i have to disappoint you; the car retired after a suspension failure in lap 64.
Ex Group-C cars were banned again in 1995. Despite the many DNFs and bad results, the Alpha/Sauber C6 was announced the oldest car ever entered at the 24 hours of Le Mans.
The car i'm driving here radiates the 1980's. Most of all because of its silhouette, the low drag long rear, the whale-tail rear wing and sponsored by a brand that promoted a now forgotten but once much used media storage device; the compact cassette tape!
It was driven by none other than Hans Joachim Stuck, Jean Louis Schlesser and Dieter Quester. Started P17, finished a surprising 1st place.


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