One to Buy: ex-Seikel Motorsport 1993 Honda NSX GT
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The collapse of the World Sportscar Championship a few weeks before the beginning of the 1993 season ultimately led to an explosion of interest in the comparatively inexpensive discipline of GT racing after years in the doldrums.
In Germany, the Allgemeiner Deutsche Automobil-Club (ADAC) organised a GT Cup for the ‘93 season. Backed by Warsteiner, the competition attracted a good variety of cars to include the Honda-backed Seikel Motorsport squad who campaigned specially prepared NSXs for Armin Hahne and John Nielsen.
The Hondas would go up against other Division 1 machinery from the likes of Porsche (911 Carrera RSR and 968 Turbo RS), Callaway (Corvette CL1), Ford (Escort RS Cosworth) and Audi (S2). Seikel were joined by other top privateer teams like Joest, ABT, Roock, Obermaier and Wolf.
In addition to Callaway, the other factory team was BMW with their FINA-backed E36 M3 GTR which had been created specially for the ‘93 series. In the hands of Johnny Cecotto (backed by the Team Isert example of Kris Nissen), the highly modified M3 unsurprisingly proved the class of the field.
During the course of the eight race season, Cecotto won on all but two occasions. The only other drivers to secure a victory were Bruno Eichmann in his Roock Racing 911 Carrera RSR (at the Nurburgring) and Armin Hahne in one of the NSX Hondas (at Avus).
Today, Hahne’s Avus-winning NSX is on offer at the Springbok Sportwagen showroom in Isernhagen, Germany.
Presented in stunning restored condition, this most historic NSX (which also took pole for the 1993 Spa 24 Hours) would make an ideal centrepiece to almost any collection of Japanese motor cars.
