One to Buy: ex-Schubel Engineering / Euroteam 1994 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti Class 1
While most governing bodies adopted Class 2 Super Touring regulations for their national touring car championships during the 1990s, organisers for the German series briefly elected to go with the more extreme Class 1 framework that allowed manufacturers to create some of the most dramatic machinery ever seen in this discipline of motor sport.
The extensive list of modifications permitted in Class 1 included four-wheel drive, traction control, anti-lock brakes, electronically-controlled differentials and anything goes aerodynamic addenda below the wheel centreline.
For 1993, the DTM was contested by works and satellite teams from Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz and Opel. That year, Alfa Corse won the title thanks Nicola Larini’s record setting eleven wins in the 155 V6 Ti while Mercedes re-took its crown the following year when the new W202 C-class came on stream.
Set to go under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s Lake Tegernsee auction in Germany on July 27th is one of just ten examples of the 155 V6 Ti constructed for the 1994 DTM season: chassis ‘88171’.
Campaigned throughout 1994 by the works-supported Schubel Engineering outfit, chassis ‘88171’ was used exclusively by ex-F1 driver Christian Danner who most notably bagged a brace of second place finishes in the car at the Nurburgring.
Following four races with the Euroteam squad in 1995, chassis ‘88171’ was returned to Alfa Corse. In 2017 the car was subjected to an exacting restoration by Fabrizio Pandolfi and returned to its 1994 livery. The car is accompanied by its original FIA Wagenpass and an extensive spares package to include a second engine.
