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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">LE MANS</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">13/09/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Spyker</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Le Mans Project</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/wldsptm70.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">Claude Yvens was in Frankfurt on Tuesday and witnessed the official launch of an all-new Le Mans contender from Holland. The road car was apparently presented in Birmingham and Amsterdam last year.<BR> <BR> The replacement image (above) is the race car. More details at this <A HREF="http://spyker.concepts.nl/">link</A>.<BR> <BR> Next year's Le Mans 24 Hours could see a two car effort from Spyker, the compamy having teamed up with former / current Viper driver Hans Hughenholtz.<BR> <BR> More details, from Claude Yvens.<BR> <BR> The C8 Double 12 shares its (aluminium) chassis with its roadgoing twins, the C8 Spyder and C8 Laviolette.<BR> <BR> The name Double 12 refers to the 24-Hours endurance record set by S. Francis Edge in 1922 at Brooklands with a Maybach-engined Spyker C4. Well, not a thorough 24-hours record, though, since the Brooklands track could only be used in daytime. The record-breaking attempt was spread over two days, hence the name Double 12. <BR> <BR> On the technical side, the Spyker C8 is powered by an all-aluminium Mader-engineered 4,0 litre V8. This engine boasts 620 bhp without restrictors and 480 bhp with two restrictors fitted. The gearbox is a 6-speed manual device, "without electronic intervention" if we are to believe the C8 press kit. The chassis is of the space frame type, all-aluminium and hand-made in a new factory that will be operational within two weeks. <BR> <BR> As far as the Le Mans effort is concerned, one car will be entered by Spyker themselves, (t.i. Victor R. Muller) and the other by Hans Hughenholz.<BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>