The 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans drew a dense field of Porsche machinery, with private teams filling the GT categories alongside factory-supported efforts. Among them was Team ASA Cachia, a French club-level outfit that entered car number 91 — a Porsche 934 Turbo crewed by Claude Bussi, Bernard Salam and Charles Grandet. Spark Model's 1:18 scale model of this entry captures one of the most understated stories from a race remembered for Rondeau's historic overall victory.
The Porsche 934: Group 4 GT Racing's Turbocharged Benchmark
Homologated for Group 4 GT competition, the Porsche 934 was built directly on the 911 Turbo (Type 930) road car platform. Its 3.0-litre flat-six, the Type 930/72 unit, produced between 485 and 550 hp depending on boost specification and race configuration. That combination of production-derived architecture and forced induction gave the 934 a formidable reputation in GT endurance events from the mid-1970s onwards, where it competed against both factory efforts and increasingly sophisticated opposition through the early 1980s.
A French Privateer at La Sarthe: Team ASA Cachia, 1980
The 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans is best remembered as the race won by Rondeau — the only occasion a constructor and driver sharing the same name have won outright at La Sarthe. Against that backdrop, Team ASA Cachia's #91 Porsche 934 represented the grassroots character of French GT club racing in the period. Bussi, Salam and Grandet shared driving duties, taking their entry into one of motorsport's most demanding events.
Spark Model's 1:18 Resin Replica
Spark Model's SKU 18S868 is a hand-assembled resin model in 1:18 scale, built to the same standards as the marque's broader 1:18 Le Mans series. Spark has consistently used resin construction for this range, allowing accurate body contours and livery reproduction at a scale that rewards close inspection. The #91 Team ASA Cachia car sits within Spark's ongoing effort to document private entrants whose histories are rarely covered by other producers, filling a specific and long-standing gap in the Porsche 934 model landscape.
In the Display Cabinet: Building the 1980 Le Mans Grid
This model belongs naturally alongside other Spark 1:18 releases from the 1980 Le Mans field, particularly the Porsche 935 entries that competed in the same race. Collectors focused on the Rondeau M379 — winner of that same 1980 event — will find the #91 Porsche 934 a contextually strong companion piece. For those assembling a complete picture of French privateer endurance racing in the Group 4 era, it represents one of the hardest entries to source in replica form at this scale.
