11 Facts About Zakspeed

Zakspeed is a motor racing team from Germany, founded in 1968 by Erich Zakowski and after that run by his son Peter Zakowski.

Zakspeed constructed and entered an FIA Group 2 Escort and the Group 5 Capri, based on the MKIII production model.

In 1982, Zakspeed ran the works Ford C100 Group C effort in conjunction with the factory.

In 1998, Zakspeed entered two Porsche 911 GT1 in the FIA GT Championship, where French Team Oreca dominated the GT2-class with their heavily modified Chrysler Viper GTS-Rs.

One of these Vipers was purchased by Zakspeed to be entered on the Nurburgring VLN series to take advantage of the new, less restrictive rules for the 1999 season.

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Company related to Zakspeed, Nitec, built the NASCAR-like V8-powered tube frame prototype cars of the V8Star Series Championship series which ran from 2001 to 2003.

Zakspeed itself won in 2003 with Pedro Lamy in a Jaguar-bodied car.

In 2001, the Zakspeed team made a brief return to single-seaters with a foray into CART racing in the US in partnership with the long-established Forsythe Championship Racing.

Nobody from Zakspeed came over to the U S and Forsythe ended the partnership.

In 2006, the Zakspeed team returned to the FIA GT Championship with the Saleen S7-R.

Zakspeed 841 being driven by Jonathan Palmer at the 1985 German Grand Prix.