w.i.p.(sorta)porsche 956

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Originally Posted by guiwee

can someone tell me why there is a second seat? im not really a race fan but i cant think of a reason why....this wasnt a rally car...was it?

It's due to a regulation based as much on tradition as anything else. Le Mans endurance cars must be designed to be able to carry two people. Even today LMP1 (the modern replacement for group C) cars are built so that a second person could (theoretically) ride along. These days it is taken only as far as theoretically possible- few if any LMP1 cars ever have a second seat fitted. But in the early 80s, the regulation was still taken seriously enough that most group C cars were actually fitted with removable seats, and sometimes even raced with the second seats in place (but unoccupied).