Sports car world championship 1992

Peugeot 905 Evo 1

Toyota TS010

Spice SE90C

The 1992 World Sports Car Championship was the 40th and final season of this championship. It started on January 26th and ended on October 18, 1992.

championship

In 1992 the sports car world championship was at a low point. As early as 1991, the series suffered from a lack of participants, so that those responsible for the FIA originally did not want to hold a World Cup in 1992. After several urges from the board of the French car manufacturer Peugeot , the FIA ​​gave in. The Peugeot 905 was presented in 1990 under the chairmanship of Jean Boillot . The aim of the project, which will run for several years, was not only to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, but also to win the World Sports Car Championship. After being beaten by Jaguar in 1991 , success was to follow in 1992. A cancellation of the championship would have meant a considerable financial loss for Peugeot in living out the title, as the group's marketing activities were based on success in motorsport. When Peugeot made an effort to get involved with other manufacturers, the FIA ​​changed its mind.

The end of the championship began with the 1989 World Sports Car Championship . Both the sporting and technical regulations of Group C were affected by the changes . For the 1989 season, the FIA ​​reduced the minimum distance of the previous long-distance races from 1,000 to 480 kilometers, then in 1991 to 430 kilometers. Also in 1989 the previous principle of a consumption formula was abandoned. Instead, Group C vehicles should from now on be powered by 3.5-liter naturally aspirated engines. This corresponded to the status of Formula 1 at the time , in which turbo engines were banned from 1989. Group C2 was omitted without replacement. Engine manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz gave up their involvement in sports car racing and instead supplied Formula 1 teams with engines. For private teams, a successful participation in the sports car world championship was no longer financially viable against the background that de facto Formula 1 technology had to be used. It is sometimes speculated that the FIA ​​deliberately made Group C unattractive through its changes to the regulations at the beginning of the 1990s, since it has become an overpowering competition in terms of audience and media favor compared to the Formula 1 World Championship (also organized by the FIA) be.

Jaguar had withdrawn at the end of the 1991 season, but gave XJR-14 chassis to Mazdaspeed. There was from the chassis of the Mazda MXR-01 with a V10 - Judd engine . Mazda offered this vehicle to private teams. At Sauber , after problems with the engine, the development of the Mercedes-Benz C292 was abandoned, so that in addition to the Peugeot, only the Toyota TS010 remained as a works car. Many other projects, such as the BRM P351 , remained piecemeal.

Of the 10 racing events initially planned, only six were held. Points for the first ten were awarded as follows: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Teams that had registered several vehicles only received points for the best placed. In addition, the respective car had to be registered for all world championship races. Drivers only received points if the car had covered at least 90% of the distance of the winning team and they were behind the wheel for at least 30% of the race distance.

Peugeot won the brands' championship with superiority, Yannick Dalmas and Derek Warwick became world champions.

Racing calendar

No.	date	Race name / circuit	team	Overall winner	vehicle	championship
1	26th of April	500 km race from Monza ( Autodromo Nazionale Monza )	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota TS010	Drivers and brands
2	10th of May	500K Silverstone Race ( Silverstone Circuit )	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	Drivers and brands
3	June 20-21	24 Hours of Le Mans ( Circuit des 24 Heures )	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas Mark Blundell	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	Drivers and brands
4th	July 19	500k Donington Race ( Donington Park )	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Mauro Baldi Philippe Alliot	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	Drivers and brands
5	August 30th	Suzuka 1000km race ( Suzuka International Racing Course )	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	Drivers and brands
6th	October 18	500km Magny-Cours ( Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours )	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Mauro Baldi Philippe Alliot	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	Drivers and brands

Brand world championship for racing teams

Overall rating

position	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	total
1	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	15th	20th	20th	20th	20th	20th	115
2	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	20th		15th	12	15th	12	74
3	Mazdaspeed	Mazda MXR-01		15th	10	8th		6th	39
4th	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C		12	4th	6th	8th	4th	34
5	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10			6th	10	10		26th
6th	Team SCI	Spice SE90C Tiga GC288		10		4th		3	17th

FIA Cup for teams

position	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	total
1	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	20th	20th	20th	20th		20th	100
2	Team SCI	Spice SE90C Tiga GC288		15th		15th		15th	45
3	GSR GmbH	Gebhardt C91	15th						15th

Drivers World Championship

Overall rating

position	driver	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	total
1 =	Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	15th	20th	20th	15th	20th	8th	98
1 =	Derek Warwick	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1	15th	20th	20th	15th	20th	8th	98
3 =	Philippe Alliot	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1			12	20th	12	20th	64
3 =	Mauro Baldi	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1			12	20th	12	20th	64
5	Geoff Lees	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	20th			12	15th	12	59
6th	Jan Lammers	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010			8th		15th	12	35
7th	Ferdinand de Lesseps	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C		12	4th	6th	8th	4th	34
8th	Maurizio Sandro Sala	Mazdaspeed	Mazda MXR-01		15th		8th		6th	29
9	Johnny Herbert	Mazdaspeed	Mazda MXR-01		15th	10				25th
10	David Brabham	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010				12		10	22nd
11	Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	20th						20th
12 =	Will Hoy	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C		12		6th			18th
12 =	Andy Wallace	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010			8th			10	18th
14th	Ranieri Randaccio	Team SCI	Spice SE90C Tiga GC288		10		4th		3	17th
15th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10			6th	10			16
16 =	Eric Helary	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1						15th	15th
16 =	Christophe Bouchut	France Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905 Evo 1						15th	15th
16 =	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010			15th				15th
16 =	Kenny Acheson	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010			15th				15th
20 =	Alex Caffi	Mazdaspeed	Mazda MXR-01				8th		6th	14th
20 =	Robin Smith	Team SCI	Spice SE90C		10		4th			14th
22nd	Nick Adams	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C					8th	4th	12
23 =	Hideshi Matsuda	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10					10		10
23 =	Phil Andrews	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10				10			10
23 =	Volker Weidler	Mazdaspeed	Mazda MXR-01			10				10
23 =	Jesús Pareja	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10					10		10
27	Teo Fabi	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010			8th				8th
28 =	Divina Galica	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C					6th		6th
28 =	Jun Harada	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C					6th		6th
30 =	Richard Piper	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C			4th				4th
30 =	Olindo Iacobelli	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C			4th				4th
33 =	Stefano Sebastiani	Team SCI	Spice SE90C						3	3

FIA Cup for drivers

position	driver	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	total
1	Ferdinand de Lesseps	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	20th	20th	20th	20th		20th	100
2	Ranieri Randaccio	Team SCI	Spice SE90C Tiga GC288		15th		15th		15th	45
3 =	Will Hoy	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C		20th		20th			40
3 =	Nick Adams	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C					20th	20th	40
5 =	Bernard Thuner	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	20th						20th
5 =	Olindo Iacobelli	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C			20th				20th
5 =	Richard Piper	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C			20th				20th
8 =	Robin Smith	Team SCI	Spice SE90C		15th					15th
8 =	Stefano Sebastiani	Team SCI	Spice SE90C		15th					15th
8 =	Frank Kraemer	GSR GmbH	Gebhardt C91	15th						15th
8 =	Almo Coppelli	GSR GmbH	Gebhardt C91	15th						15th

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
• Thomas Nehlert: Group C. The sports car races 1982–1992. Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 3-940306-14-2 .

Web links

Commons : World Sports Car Championship 1992  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Results at WSRP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Schwede, 30 years of age Group C - The end with horror