Gebhardt C88 (Group C2)
The C88 is C2's German privateer chapter: the Gebhardt brothers' Cosworth prototype — the class-winning Le Mans campaigns of the junior category — Group C revival's affordable-entry rarity.
History
The Gebhardt brothers' Bavarian operation served Group C's junior class with the C88 (1988): the C2 category's privateer economics — the Cosworth DFL power the class's British-engine orthodoxy ran (the fuel-formula arithmetic the junior division's consumption rules set), the aluminium-honeycomb construction the small house built, and the customer-and-works campaigns the type served — racing the World Sportscar Championship's C2 division: the Le Mans 24 Hours' class campaigns (the C2 grids' David-tier stories beneath the Porsche-and-Jaguar headline war), the championship rounds' class honours, and the small-team culture (the Gebhardt works squad's own entries beside the customer sales) that made the marque C2's German flag.
The C2 formula's structure frames the type: the junior category's fuel-allocation rules (the consumption arithmetic scaled beneath C1's), the cost-capped privateer intent the division served, and the DFL-Hewland commonality the class's British parts grammar ran.
The revival-rarity identity structures today's market: the Group C revival movement's C2 welcome (the junior class's affordable entry against the C1 icons' seven-figure custody), the per-chassis scholarship the small run keeps, and the German-privateer romance the marque carries.
The present is revival-C2 custody: chassis-identity documentation, DFL-era engine economics, and the David-tier story throughout.
Palmarès
C2 class campaigns at Le Mans and the World Sportscar rounds through the 1988-90 seasons — the German privateer flag's junior-division ledger.
What to check before you buy
C2-rarity law: per-chassis scholarship at small-run depth (the C88 identities and Le Mans-and-WSC biographies — the class-campaign documentation the provenance spine), DFL-era engine custody (the Cosworth units' specialist paths the class's known economics), construction originality per the honeycomb era, and revival-eligibility fit (the Group C movement's C2 grids the racing home — the junior class's affordable entry the market positioning). The C1 icons' seven-figure gravity lifts the whole era; C2 rarities price the same romance at accessible stakes — the German privateer story the affection layer.
Did you know
- C2 was the David tier: the junior class racing its own war beneath the Porsche-Jaguar headline era.
- The fuel maths ruled the class: C2's consumption allocation making efficiency the division's engineering law.
- The brothers flew Germany's privateer flag: Gebhardt's works-and-customer C2 campaigns the marque's identity.
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