What ???

"Of the 19 factory CSL race cars built, gooooogooout sold 23"...

Looks like Quester got his car from goooggggoooout and it was a fake.
 
Educate me. They are mentioning the same drivers and car number as what is prints in h door (in the photos).
 
997 / 998

There seems to be a lot of confusion over the history of these two cars, in particular 997. For anyone interested in the real story see below;

1973 ETCC

Monza Stuck / Amon #1 2275999 DNF
Hezemans / Quester #2 2275998 DNF

Salzburg Stuck / Quester #1 2275999 DNF

Mantorp...no factory cars.

Nurburgring GP Stuck / Amon #12 2275997 1st
Hezemans / Quester # 10 2275998 2nd

Spa 24 Hours Stuck / Amon # 11 2275997 DNF
Hezemans / Quester 2275998 1st

Zandvoort Stuck / Amon #8 2275997 DNF
Hezemans / Quester #9 2275999 1st

Paul Ricard Stuck / Amon #3 2275997 3rd
Hezemans / Quester #4 2275998 1st

Silverstone TT Stuck / Amon # 51 2275998 DNF
Quester / Hezemans #52 2275997 DNF
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Nurburgring 1000 KMS Stuck / Amon # 68 2275997 DNF
Quester / Hezemans # 69 2275998 2nd in Gp 2 class

Le Mans 24 Hours Stuck / Amon # 50 2275997 DNF
Quester / Hezemans # 51 2275998 1st in Gp 2 class

Information comes from period BMW Motorsport documents.
 
What a perfect response

Thank you Roundel,

This is exactly what is needed for the future of our part of the hobby, I hope the administrators can find a way to archive important racing history like this in a special place on the E9 Coupe page. Obviously should anybody wish to disagree, they can do so,


Sadly, I cannot see that Stanceworks have corrected it, although I hope they do. I can though see two very correct comments at the bottom.

Its very sad that something so simple, from what normally seems like a fun website, can get something so fundamentally wrong. I know they are not historians, but as we all know if the wrong information is repeated often enough....................

The history on 2275998 is very well known and the car is in Europe, that cars history is continuous and well respected by the factory and everybody in the know.

These pictures I believe are of 2275997, a wonderful car, but a different car to the story, as can be seen from the response below from Roundel.

As these cars become more valuable, we see more and more "inaccurate" ( the nicest word I can use) stories. Nobody needs respected sites putting out information without some basic checking, it benefits nobody and can seriously hurt good cars.
 
Thank you Roundel,

This is exactly what is needed for the future of our part of the hobby, I hope the administrators can find a way to archive important racing history like this in a special place on the E9 Coupe page. Obviously should anybody wish to disagree, they can do so,


Sadly, I cannot see that Stanceworks have corrected it, although I hope they do. I can though see two very correct comments at the bottom.

Its very sad that something so simple, from what normally seems like a fun website, can get something so fundamentally wrong. I know they are not historians, but as we all know if the wrong information is repeated often enough....................

The history on 2275998 is very well known and the car is in Europe, that cars history is continuous and well respected by the factory and everybody in the know.

These pictures I believe are of 2275997, a wonderful car, but a different car to the story, as can be seen from the response below from Roundel.

As these cars become more valuable, we see more and more "inaccurate" ( the nicest word I can use) stories. Nobody needs respected sites putting out information without some basic checking, it benefits nobody and can seriously hurt good cars.

I think need to delete your browser history...
 
I now see the page on Stanceworks has now been removed.

I wish they would have acknowledged the mistake and corrected. So many people, just read these things once and then walk away with that information.

Ah well, at least it is down
 
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