Toyota 92C-V
The Toyota 92C-V was a Group C sports car that was developed for use in the Japanese Sports Car Championship in 1992 .
Development history and technology
The 92C-V was the further development of the Toyota 91C-V . The car was built according to the Group C2 regulations. With a minimum weight of 700 kg, the C2 prototype was 100 kg lighter than the group C1 car. However, the tank capacity was only allowed to be 55 liters; the difference of 100 liters for the group C1 vehicles. In order to comply with the consumption formula, only 33 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers were used in a 1000 km race. In group C1, the engines were allowed to consume almost twice as much with 60 liters per 100 kilometers.
In contrast to most of its competitors, Toyota also used a turbo engine in Group C2-92C-V with a 3.5-liter V8 unit .
Racing history
The Japanese championship carried out its races according to the technical regulations of group C. There the 92C-V were classified as C1 and had to take on additional weights in order not to fall below the weight limit. Originally, the 92C-V should only be driven in the Japanese sports car championship. However, two cars were entered in the Le Mans 24-hour race , where the TS010 was the car in group C1 and the 92C-V drove in group C2. The car made its debut in the 1992 Suzuka 500 km race , the first round of the championship in Japan , for the Tom's Toyota works team . Nissan scored a double victory in the race . Behind them were the 92C-V teams Steven Andskär / George Fouché and Roland Ratzenberger / Eje Elgh in third and fourth place.
At the second race of the season, the Fuji 1000 km race , Pierre-Henri Raphanel and Masanori Sekiya came fifth overall . Both cars crossed the finish line in Le Mans, with Stefan Johansson , George Fouché and Steven Andskär also winning the C2 class with fifth overall.
No racing victory could be celebrated with the 92C-V. The closest thing to an overall victory came Raphanel and Sekiya with second overall in the 1992 Sugo 500 km race . The 92C-V were replaced in 1993 by the next development stage of this racing car type, the 93C-V .
literature
- Thomas Nehlert, Group C: The sports car races 1982-1992 , Verlag Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 3-940306-14-2 .
Web links
- The Toyota 92C-V at Racing Sports Cars
