Art.Nr. 23870
Klaus Ludwig's number one
In front of me is the 124 scale Ford Capri Turbo from the 1980 German racing championship.
The famous winning car of driver Klaus Ludwig, who took the most victories in the 13 races held in 1980, but missed out on the title because he was disqualified in the first two races due to a rear spoiler that did not comply with the rules and was therefore stripped of 25 championship points. Hans Heyer became champion at the time.
The Capri of the famous Zakspeed team, the racing team from Niederzissen in the Eifel region that had been active in motor racing since 1968, had a 1.4-liter engine on board that Zakspeed had developed itself. The engine was a further development of the BDA engine designed by Cosworth for Ford, based on the 1.3 l Kent engine. The Ford weighed 830 kilograms and had 600 hp. Initially, the car still had the large rear wing, but after this was banned, a large diffuser shaft was developed for the chassis for more abrasion and a smaller rear wing was installed. The Capri was the first Group 5 Capri with a so-called ground-effect underbody based on the model used in Formula 1 at the time: the Turbo Capri exhibited completely different handling characteristics to other racing cars, especially in fast corners - the faster you go, the more the car can do.
Incidentally, the original car is now owned by the MK Mücke Motorsport team. The racing team, which is also involved in the DTM, the ADAC Masters and the FIA Formula 3, uses the car in classic races, including the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix. Nowadays, the vehicle's power output has been reduced to around 540 hp. Owner Stefan Mücke commented on this in an interview: "Incidentally, we don't drive at the limit in terms of performance at these events, the cars may have had over 600 hp back then, but the engines often revved up. In order not to overstress it, but still be able to drive at the front, around 540 hp is enough for us." And various class victories show that the Mücke Motor Sport Team is not wrong about this.
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