The real Sauber-Mercedes C9 race car is not road legal. This replica, however, is. The thoughtful homage to the Le Mans-winning race car calls South Africa home. It's the work of Johan Ackermann ...

Sauber created two configurations: one for sprint circuits and a low-drag version for Le Mans. The 5.0-liter V8 engine was based on the Mercedes-Benz M119, which the German company introduced on ...

The Sauber-Mercedes C9 stands as the first 'Silver Arrow' of the modern era, a car so dominant at one point that it drew justifiable parallels with the original silver bullets from the '30s.

It seems that an accident during the second hour was pretty much all it took for the three Sauber-Mercedes C9 cars not to do a 1-2-3 finish and fill the podium at the 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours race.