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2003 Zonee Grand Champion

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- Chuck H.

1987-89 Exoto Sauber-Mercedes C9

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Winner, 1988 Spa Francorchamps 1000 km, driven by Johansson/Baldi, AEG

The 1987 World Sportscar season had ended on a high note at the ultra-fast Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium: The Kouros C9 had earned its first ever pole!

For 1988 Peter Sauber was planning to make an even greater impression on the Sportscar competition. The Swiss team continued to develop the C9 and justified the vast effort by claiming pole for almost every race on the 1988 calendar, missing out only at Le Mans and in Japan. Most rewarding, however, was seeing Sauber C9 drivers atop the podium at the Jerez, Brünn, and Nürburgring rounds with three events left!

Formula 1 star Stefan Johansson was paired with the diminutive Mauro Baldi to share driving duties at three events. Together the pair had earned the dream result at the 1000km Spa-Francorchamps race: pole position, nearly a full second faster than the rival Jaguar XJR-9 of Lammers/Dumfries, and overall victory too! Relentless rain forced race organizers to call the race, bringing the contest to an end precisely 6 hours after the difficult race began, just 15km short of the planned race distance. It is this particular AEG Sauber-Mercedes C9, wearing Michelin rain tires, that Exoto has proudly reproduced and offers here in grand 1:18 scale!

The two beautiful AEG-sponsored C9s were shipped down to Sandown Park, Australia, for the final WSC race of 1988. There they enjoyed the perfect weekend by owning the front row of the grid and finishing 1-2. And so the stage was set for Sauber-Mercedes' Championship season!


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Winner, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Mass/Reuter/Dickens

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1989, Works Prototype in Authentic Metallic Silver
1987 German Super Cup, Mike Thackwell, Michelin
1987 Spa Francorchamps 1000 km, Mike Thackwell, Kouros
Pole/Fifth, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Schlesser/Jabouille/Cudini
Second, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Baldi/Acheson/Brancatelli
Winner, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Dickens/Reuter/Mass
Winner, 1988 Spa Francorchamps 1000 km, Johansson/Baldi, AEG
Winner, 1988 Spa Francorchamps 1000 km, Johansson/Baldi, AEG, Finish Line Plus
1988, Presentation Model
1987 German Super Cup, Mike Thackwell, Michelin, Finish Line Plus
1987 Spa Francorchamps 1000 km, Mike Thackwell, Kouros, Finish Line Plus
Pole/Fifth, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Schlesser/Jabouille/Cudini, Finish Line Plus
Second, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Baldi/Acheson/Brancatelli, Finish Line Plus
Winner, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Mass/Reuter/Dickens, Finish Line Plus
Winner, 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours, Mass/Reuter/Dickens, Finish Line Excess

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Driven by Stefan Johansson
Driven by Mauro Baldi
Raced at Spa Francorchamps 1000 km
Competed in World Sportscar Championship
Circa 1988
Raced at Spa-Francorchamps
Cars by Sauber
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