The Sports Car World Championship wasn’t in the best of health by 1992 following the withdrawals of Jaguar and Mercedes. And Group C as a world championship platform duly ceased to exist after a Magny-Cours finale that attracted a pitiful eight-car entry.
It was left to Peugeot to fight off Toyota for the honour of the final pukka world title for prototypes until the World Endurance Championship’s revival in its modern guise in 2012. The Tony Southgate-penned Toyota TS010s and Japanese rivals Mazda with the MXR-01, essentially a rebadged Jaguar XJR14, were only sporadically threatening to Jean Todt’s mighty Peugeot equipe as Derek Warwick finally scored the world championship title he’d been denied on a technicality in 1991 and had lost by the difference of one position at Fuji in 1986.
