Whenever group C sports car racing is talked about, the image is that of insanity, distilled down and blown up in hundreds of cylinders across dozens of cars as they fought for some of the greatest accolades in motorsport. And while group C may not have always been quite so ridiculous, our subject today certainly was. So fast was this machine, that the most famous motor racing track in the world was changed to ensure it could never happen again. This is the story of the Sauber-Mercedes C9.

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