Sports car

Porsche 962 was not allowed to race Le Mans, so Porsche commissioned Dauer to optimize the racing car into a road car. This is how the Dauer 962LM cars appeared, which developed a maximum speed of 400 km / h. They were also allowed to race Le Mans. Slightly modified versions of the car took 1st and 3rd places in the 1994 race.

In 1965, while visiting the French rocket and space company Matra, which at that time was also engaged in the production of cars, Yuri Gagarin liked the compact sports car Matra-Bonnet Djet V - a lightweight (660 kg) 2-seater coupe with a carbon fiber body. The company donated one Matra-Bonnet Djet V to the first astronaut. According to the recollections of Yuri Gagarin's acquaintances, this was his favorite car.

Amerikanskiye traditsii stroitelʹstva bystrokhodnykh avtomobiley tozhe ochenʹ davniye, voskhodyashchiye k 1920-m godam i takim markam, kak «Obërn», «Kord» i «Dyuzenberg». Odnako Velikaya depressiya prervala etot protsess, perenesya aktsent na snizheniye tseny, uvelicheniye razmerov avtomobiley i povysheniye ikh komforta. Zanovo on poshël lishʹ posle Vtoroy mirovoy voyny, kogda vozvrashchayushchiyesya iz Yevropy soldaty stali privozitʹ domoy yevropeyskiye sportkary, takiye, kak MG TC — malenʹkiye, ne slishkom moshchnyye, no khorosho upravlyayushchiyesya i ochenʹ uvlekatelʹnyye v vozhdenii. Otvetom mestnykh proizvoditeley na etu tendentsiyu stali sobstvennyye amerikanskiye sportivnyye modeli, pervoy massovoy sredi kotorykh stal Chevrolet Corvette (1953)
The American tradition of building fast cars is also very old, going back to the 1920s and brands like Auburn, Kord, and Duesenberg. However, the Great Depression interrupted this process, shifting the focus to lower prices, increase the size of cars and improve their comfort. It didn't start again until after World War II, when soldiers returning from Europe began bringing home European sports cars such as the MG TC - small, not very powerful, but well-handling and very fun to drive. The response of local manufacturers to this trend was their own American sports models, the first mass among which was the Chevrolet Corvette (1953)

European sports cars were designed primarily for fast driving on country roads (which in the most developed countries of Europe were already well paved in the 1930s) - narrow and winding, full of dangerous turns - or along mountain serpentines. Both for this and for the other, first of all, good handling was required, while power was in the background, since the speeds were relatively low. Therefore, European sports cars had a very well-designed chassis and relatively weak engines with a displacement of 1.5 ... 3 liters, often forced versions of quite ordinary power units from mass sedans.

Historically, there were two types of sports cars - European and American, which differed significantly from each other in accordance with the difference in the road system of these regions and the tastes of the respective audience.

For driving at a racing pace, with a long retention of engine speed at the red mark, sudden braking, cornering at the limit of possibility and accidents at high speeds, a sports car is not intended. A package of options that allows you to go to the race track, for example, on test days, is called ringtool (often referred to as RS - for example, Porsche GT3 RS)

A sports car or sports car is a conditionally generalized name for a wide class of two-, rarely four-seater cars with higher speed qualities and, accordingly, increased engine power and low body fit.

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