When we talk about Group C racing, we often think of speed, insane engineering, and the pinnacle of motorsport. But among the ...

The C9 was retired after the first race of the 1990 season and replaced by the Mercedes-Benz C11, which also won the World Sportscar Championship. Come 2023, and the C9 is not the kind of race car ...

When the real Sauber-Mercedes C9 was being raced, it featured a twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter V8 engine with a touch over 800 hp. The car hit 400 km/h (248 mph) on the Mulsanne Straight during ...

South African Johan Ackerman built a replica of the Le Mans-winning Sauber-Mercedes C9 of the 1980s. It's the only C9 legal for the street.

An ex-test driver and mechanic has built a road-legal replica of the iconic Sauber-Mercedes C9 using a 1:32 scale model as a guide. Johan Ackermann, from Gauteng, South Africa created a custom ...

An ex-test driver and mechanic has built a road-legal replica of the iconic Sauber-Mercedes C9 using a 1:32 scale model as a guide.Johan Ackermann, from Gauteng, South Africa created a custom-designed ...

Let's put it this way: the C11 was so cool that Mercedes-Benz couldn't resist putting its name on it for the 1990 season, despite the also Mercedes-powered C9 running solely under the Sauber logo ...

Johan Ackermann’s Sauber C9 and Mercedes-Benz C11 clones. Johan Ackermann Ackermann eventually turned his attention to Mercedes’ next great prototype, the CLK GTR, which won the 1997 FIA GT1 ...

It seems that an accident during the second hour was pretty much all it took for the three Sauber-Mercedes C9 cars not to do a 1-2-3 finish and fill the podium at the 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours race.