The Dacia Logan racer built by Ollis Garage to participate in multiple 24 Hours of the Nürburgring races crashed last year, to much disappointment of the fans. Car Throttle is now reporting that the exotic saloon would be making a comeback this season, although in a different body.
The new car is reportedly already upgraded to the endurance racing spec and waits for the season to start. You might think something as cheap and basic as a Logan may never make a motorsports career, but Ollis Racing has done every effort to prove the skeptics wrong. The car performed admirably on the track, and the fans were saddened greatly to see it wrecked. Apparently, Maximilian Weissermel was undercut by a Porsche 911 GT3 R during the nighttime part of the race. The drivers were fine, but the car had to be scrapped.
The Dacia team said it would be making a comeback next year with a different Logan, and would complete the entire Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) series behind its steering wheel. It then spent an entire winter building this replacement. The team proudly calls the end result “their one and only”, although they admit that the new Logan is a completely different car under the hood.
The old Logan had its 1.6-liter naturally aspirated engine removed and a larger 2.0-liter Renaultsport mill with 163 PS (161 hp / 120 kW) put into its place. It remains to be revealed what kind of powertrain the new build has.
