The real Sauber-Mercedes C9 race car is not road legal. This replica, however, is. The thoughtful homage to the Le Mans-winning race car calls South Africa home. It's the work of Johan Ackermann ...

This is the story of the Sauber-Mercedes C9, a machine so fast that it forced Le Mans to change its track forever.The story begins in the early 1980s when Group C racing emerged as the premier ...

These tributes to Merc's championship-winning Group C Saubers and CLK GTR are labors of love of the highest order. Johan Ackermann’s Sauber C9 and Mercedes-Benz C11 clones. Johan Ackermann ...

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 ...

Sauber created two configurations: one for sprint circuits and a low-drag version for Le Mans. The 5.0-liter V8 engine was based on the Mercedes-Benz M119 , which the German company introduced on ...

Two hundred and forty-eight miles an hour. That's how fast this car, the Sauber C9, screamed down the Mulsanne Straight at the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 1989. And the motor that got it there was ...

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.