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Mercedes-Sauber-C9
Chassis number 05

A mobile "van Gogh"
Only Sauber-Mercedes C9-05 "SILVER ARROW" in private property

For or other sensation was the ACS Bergslalom Reitnau in the last years always well. On coming Sunday the spectators will experience however the sensation of the sensations. To first and for the second time Sauber-Mercedes C9 with the chassis number 05 will up-thunder the 1.6 kilometer distance.

"The Silver Arrow" is driven by the Frenchman Jean Louis Schlesser, which conquered with this car 1989 together with driver number 2, the German Jochen Mass, the driver world champion title.
Together with the pilots of the second Mercedes (C9-06), the Italian Mauro Baldi and the Englishman Kenny Acheson, Mercedes secured itself the title of the mark world champion. After conclusion of the successful career the Sauber C9-06 in the company-owned Mercedes museum got an honour place. The C9-05 was total-revised with Peter Sauber and changed into the private property of the Aarauer businessman and ex long-distance pilot Cox Kocher.
On Sunday this silver arrow - which is the only run-suited car, that is in private property – becomes rolled out of the exhibition hall. Specially for the support of this vehicle two company-owned Sauber-mechanics travel to Reitnau.
And the motorsport-hearts become high-strike, if Schlesser arouses the 5-Liter-V8-Biturbomotor with 800 HP to the life.
Which is in this engine, the exzellente sports car pilot Schlesser showed 1989 with the 24-Stunden-Klassiker von Le Mans: With 407 km/h (!!) obtained it an absolute speed world record with such running. Of all too large euphoria however warns owner Kocher: "A point time will not be reached in Reitnau. First of all the C9 is a round distance car, secondly it is too long translated, and thirdly this car has a collecting tank value - to compare with a Van Gogh painting.
There it understands itself automatically that we do not want to deal with this unique demo travel all too large risks."

Small detail: 1974 had Sauber in Reitnau one three-way-follow. Jean Francois Renold won the group-5-sportcars with one Sauber C3 before Friedrich Hürzeler with one Sauber c1. Also the technical designer Peter Sauber rendered the honour to the mountain running Reitnau and drove its C2 on third rank.

Out: Aargauer day sheet, Switzerland, 1993)