Zakspeed Turbo Capri

As almost every other car site on the web is likely to be filled with new Corvette superlatives today, we thought we'd offer some old Ford goodness.

Let's ride in an 1981 Zakspeed Ford Turbo Capri DRM car racing in year's Oldtimers race at the Nürburgring.

Takes a brave soul to actually run a vintage 1.4L engine outputting 320bhp/l (as comparison, GM's LS engine in the new Corvette is 78hp/l)

Predictably, it does not last long but it's interesting that, while no match for the much more powerful Group 1 935 K3, it kills it in the turns.   The Capri had very advanced aero for the time and was condemned as a "cheater car" by rivals.     Zachspeed also built the 1980's IMSA Mustangs.

You can find out everything about the Zakspeed Fords HERE

The video is set to start as the race starts but, by all means do go back and check out the beginning with the well chosen 80's soundtrack from Motorsportvideo.tv

80's heroes: Porsche 935K vs BMW M1 Turbo

the last Porsche 935K3 was build in Cologne for the LeMans 24h race in 1981. Driven by the three Whittington Brothers the race ends after 2hours with a engine failure.
Later driven by "John Winter" in the DRM and Rolf Stommelen in the Endurance World Championship. in 1982 the car comes back to LeMans with Edgar Dören, Antonio Contreras and Billy Sprowls. But they did not see the checkered flag, the race ends without fuel.
in August 2011 the car was tested on the Nurburgring GP-Track for the next race during the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix. Drivers are Chris Stahl and Klaus Ludwig.



The Schnitzer BMW M1 Turbo was raced in 1981 by Hans Stück in Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (Group 5) and later in the 90's by others in the Spezial Tourenwagen Trophy. Schnitzer built the chassis out of aluminum and the body out of kevlar and fit an experimental BMW twin turbo 3.2 liter 6 good anywhere from 800 to 1000 hp, depending on who you believe. The car won the 1981 Norisring 200, its only win.
In August 2011 the car was rolled outfox the first time in over 10 years at a Porsche Club Trackday at Nurburgring.

Check out these cars in action, restored to their former glory and running on the track along with a period clip, after the jump.
(motorsportvideo.tv)

Before there was DTM, real men raced in DRM

Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft , the German Racing Championship was the precursor to the now more famous DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) that ran between 1972 and 1985. It started, much like DTM, with fairly agricultural production cars and through the years evolved to the point of absurdity with insanely flared silhouette tube frame cars and sport prototypes until it just priced itself out of existence and was replaced by the (at the time) more sensible touring cars.

Enjoy this long slide show of some of these epic cars, from a racing VW bug all the way to the monster Joest Porshes of the mid 80's. Check out where the genesis of the famous BMW e30 M3 flares ...a Fiat 128...who knew!

Videos are after the jump.

Team Europa-Mobel Ford Capri RS



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