Footage of a Porsche 962 C crashing into the barrier at Belgium’s famed Spa Francorchamps circuit has emerged online. Fortunately, the driver suffered no serious injuries, though the car wasn’t quite as lucky.
The video description notes that the car is the same one whose build was featured on Steinmann Motorsport‘s website. The site reports that the car was rebuilt with help from Kremer’s Günter Thiele, who was the Team Porsche chief mechanic at the time. It sits on a new chassis from America with parts sourced from all over Germany.
The accident took place after the final chicane on the way onto the start-finish straight. In many ways, the driver was lucky to lose it there, since the tight chicane meant the car was traveling at significantly lower speeds than it would have been at the track‘s most famous (and dangerous) corner complex, the Eau Rouge.
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One commenter, claiming to be Wayne R. Dempsey of Dempsey Motorsports, suggested that the repair bill for a car like this one could cost as much as “$200K-250K USD or more.”
“Unfortunately, every single nut and bolt would need to be removed from this and the chassis sent to EY3 or a similar shop for disassembly and repair,” Dempsey wrote. “With the apparent lack of period race history, it may just be more economical to have a new chassis made.”
Although this car’s apparent lack of provenance makes it hard to know exactly how much it’s worth, the $1.2 million price quoted in the video’s title is certainly within the realm of possibility for a Porsche 962. A 1990 model raced by Brun Motorsport sold for $1,595,000 in 2018, and this year a very similar car sold for $1,049,621 (£759,000).
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