The Dauer 962 Le Mans is a sports car based on the Porsche 962 Group C racing car. Built by German Jochen Dauer's Dauer Racing, a racing version of this car went on to win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans with the support of Porsche in LMGT1 group. The first road car debuted at the 1993 Frankfurt Auto Show. In total 13 cars were made. [2]

Feb 24, 2024 · Rather than spend precious time developing a road-legal 962 themselves, Porsche engineers reasoned that partnering up with Dauer was the perfect solution to gain GT1 homologation.

Jan 3, 2022 · Forgotten by many, the Dauer 962 LM was a spectacular supercar based on a legendary Porsche endurance prototype from the 1980s

Jun 28, 2019 · As ground effect was how the 962 derived most of its downforce, Porsche had to create a rebodied variant known as the Dauer 962 LM Sport to run at la Sarthe. It proved worth the effort and the two cars finished first and third at Le Mans that summer.

See full 1994 Dauer 962 Le Mans Gallery here. 962LM in Detail. Since the 1994 victory, much has changed at Dauer as attention focused from street legal racecar to civilized roadcar. To create each one of these cars, Dauer takes an original Porsche-made 956/962 and strips the car.

All Dauer 962 LM were modified from those Porsche 962 which had been raced. In this view, it was a "modified car" rather than a "production car". Back in 1994, Jochen Dauer claimed he could build at most 50 cars from the racing cars found on the market.

May 11, 2020 · The tale of the 1994 Dauer 962 LM is a classic story of motorsport smarts – clever designers and engineers finding a hole in the regulations to exploit – Werner Kirchmann tells the story of how the 1994 Le Mans 24 Hours was won as Dauer and Porsche showed where the early GT1 regulations had significant flaws!

Sep 19, 2022 · Thanks to plenty of help from Porsche, that is exactly what German racing fan, Jochen Dauer did in 1994 with the 962 Group C racer to create the Dauer 962 Le Mans.

These included the Porsche GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR and our feature car, the Dauer 962 LM. What good times. At the 24 hour race, Dauer showed up with both a road version and race version of the Porsches 962, a design which had already won Le Mans six times.

2 days ago · A hint of Le Mans also wafted through the Salzburg region last weekend, thanks to an appearance by the 962 Dauer Le Mans GT, which won Porsche its 13th overall victory at the 24-hour race in 1994. The three-litre twin-turbo engine of the 962 C was modified in Weissach and catapulted the 962 Dauer Le Mans GT from a standstill to 200 km/h in 7.3 ...