We don’t generally get drawn in by motorsport auctions (we’re long on enthusiasm, short on the funding to be able to indulge!), but a lot at the Silverstone Auctions sale at the end of this month did rather catch the eye of the DSC Editor.
Basically, it is the sale of all that remains of the Ascari A410 LMP900 programme!
That includes a complete race car (chassis 001), two additional rolling chassis, a huge array of spares, body parts and, crucially, the moulds and tooling needed to remanufacture new parts.
The cars competed at Le Mans in 2001 with a double dnf after showing real pace in the wet, and the Judd-powered car (its sister car then powered by a BMW V8), qualified well at the 2002 Rolex 24 Hours in the hands of Werner Lupberger, and finished in the top six of the 2002 12 Hour of Sebring, with the late Justin Wilson joining the team.
The car’s only race win came in 2001, on home soil for the team at Donington Park in 2001, heading home a strong contingent of SR1 cars in the FIA SCC (a race which this writer attended!).
Renamed the KZR1 the cars raced on until 2003 in the USA and in the FIA SCC.
The cars were built by Klaas Zwaart’s Team Ascari in Banbury (in the current home of the Haas F1 team) with the WSC design an evolution of the Lola T92/10 Group C car.
Guide price for the lot is £800,000 – £1,000,000 – Bargain!
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