Clean C1
The Sauber C1 was the first racing car that the Swiss Peter Sauber designed and built in 1970 at the age of 26 in his parents' basement in Zurich .
Development history
Peter Sauber chose the designation C1 after the first letter of his wife Christiane's first name and retained it in the racing car series that followed. The self-constructed chassis made of tubular space frame with double triangular wishbones, stabilizers, telescopic and gas pressure shock absorbers was supplemented by Brabham parts. The C1 was powered by an 85 kW (115 PS) 1-liter 4-cylinder Cosworth engine with dry sump lubrication.
Peter Sauber drove the car himself in races for Sauber Motorsport and won the Swiss sports car championship in 1970 . In 1974 Friedrich Hürzeler became sports car champion with the C1. Only two of the C1 were made. Until 1983 you drove under different drivers in international competitions.
In 1971 the Sauber C2 followed with a 1600 cc engine.
In 2013, a C1 took part in the historic hill climb for the International Edelweiß Bergpreis Roßfeld in Berchtesgaden.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Sauber: From C1 to C22 - HZ. In: handelszeitung.ch. March 5, 2003, accessed July 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Sauber C2 on Zwischengas.com ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )