C2 World Sportscar Championship-Winning 1986 Spice SE86C Cosworth Up For Sale
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This 1986 Spice SE86C Cosworth helped Gordon Spice to two C2 World Sportscar Championship drivers’ titles and picked up a class win at Le Mans. It’s up for sale at Duncan Hamilton ROFGO.
The car, Spice SE86 chassis 001, is the first Group C car that Spice ever built. It was designed in conjunction with Pontiac, who were funding the project, to be a silhouette match for the Pontiac Fiero.
Spice ran it as a works car in ’86 and ’87, debuting in the 1986 Coppa Kouros at Monza with Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm driving it to second place. In its second race, the Kouros 1000 km at Silverstone, it went one better and picked up a class win, a feat they’d repeat in the Trofeo Silk Cut at Jerez later in the year. The rest of the season would be similarly successful and earn Spice and Bellm the 1986 C2 Drivers World Championship.
The car’s lone trip from the C2 podium in 1986 was the 24 Hours of Le Mans, for which the team added Jean-Michel Martin to the driving roster and picked up 19th overall and 6th in class. Today the car is presented in the 1986 WSC/Le Mans Cannon/Listerine livery that it wore for this race.
001 returned to the track for the 1987 World Sportscar Championship season and strung together an even more impressive year. Fermín Vélez joined the driving roster, driving alongside Spice for most of the races. Philippe de Henning helped pilot the car in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The SE86C claimed a nearly unbeaten string of class wins, picking up victory at Jarama, Jerez, Monza, the Nürburgring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans along with two at the Norisring for good measure.
Chamberlain Engineering took over the car following the 200 Meilen von Nürnberg, running it through the rest of the season. Meanwhile, Spice and Bellm moved into chassis 003 and would wrap up the year with a second Drivers World Championship to their names.
001 continued to compete in ’88, ’89 and 1990, running in the 24 Hours of Le Mans three more times.
Its current owner took ownership in 2010 and has driven it successfully in historic Group C racing, maintaining it with no expense spared. It will be sold with Cosworth DFL motor and gearbox that have only one shakedown run on them. Also included in the sale are current FIA HTP papers, fuel tanks and crack test.
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