For the fourth round, the.After Le Mans, Sauber Mercedes decided that the C291 had been developed enough to compete on its own, and it finished the season without running a C11 alongside. Back in 1988, Mercedes’ board gave the go-ahead for a new challenger to the forthcoming 3.5L World Sports Car Championship era to start from 1st of January 1991 and this would become known as the Mercedes-Benz C291.Not only it was the first fully Mercedes branded sports car –.All solutions were considered with ultimate goals being a power output of 650hp, a weight set at the ruling minimum with 750kg, a certain length as well as an overall aerodynamic efficiency. Also, to produce similar power to the Group C cars a 3.5 litre naturally-aspirated engine had to be very high-revving and be constructed from different materials in order to rev highly.However, this, allied to the characteristics of the 3.5 litre engine, meant the car would be less accelerative above 150-170 mph than Group C cars, therefore not taking advantage of the low-drag design, and conversely the low-drag design meant the car was slower in the corners than the Jaguar and Peugeot’s 905B, this time not taking advantage of the lower kerb weight of 750 kilograms (1,653 lb). 1/43 Sauber Mercedes C291 Car 1 Trout Shredder 1991. Find great deals on eBay for mercedes c291. Engines were particularly looked at with eight, ten and twelve cylinders architecture being explored.It didn’t all go according to plan as the car started life overweight at around 790kg and with an engine underpowered with figures nearing the 530 to 540hp at the start.
In terms of torsional rigidity, Mercedes at the time stated that it was twice stiffer than the 1989 Sauber C9 model of 1989.Now and considering on-track achievements, I would not say that the C291 ended-up a complete failure, truly it wasn’t but in comparison to the previous C9 and C11 models campaigned by the Sauber Mercedes outfit, it didn’t prove as successfull. Sauber Mercedes finished the season third in the teams championship.After much disappointment the C291 was planned to be replaced by the more radical,Complete World Sportscar Championship results,Learn how and when to remove this template message,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercedes-Benz_C291&oldid=950164010,Articles lacking sources from December 2006,Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. However, the C291 failed to finish the next three races of the season. Autopolis, Japan being the last round, Mercedes seemed to have turned their fortunes around.
1/64 Kyosho MERCEDES … Clearly, the fact that an old C11 would be campaigned alongside the new car did show how much confidence the team …
Still, it went wrong with two cars retiring on engine failures while the Wendlinger/Schumacher entry joined by Fritz Kreutzpointner would end-up fifth… It could have been a win if they had started the race as an endurance one and not a sprint….But anyway, from then, it just went downhill. Following on the success of the Sauber C9, the Mercedes-Benz C11 was the last Group C prototype built by the Sauber Mercedes team before the introduction of the 3.5 litre category. Finally, it all looked good with the cars coming together, future and 1992 looking bright with a development already in progress with the C292 project.But all this would stand as a failure in the end, although a race winner, the C291 and future C292 were canned in favour of Mercedes-Benz going to Formula One from then. Benz Bespoke 1/43 Max Sauber Mercedes C11 Car 2 Bendlinger Silver Arrow .
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