JAGUAR SLIPPED

* * * JAG I. ‘Alt 81,1111’ED Sir,

Sir, With the laudable object of stopping the increasing habit of misleading ad vertisements could I be told what specific award for ” Best Performance ” was gained by Jaguar in the Alpine Bally as claimed if) their current advertisements in the

Press ? As far as. I knew there is no actual winner or official best performance in the Alpine, and the highest honour NviliCil

can be earned is the winning of a class and an Alpine Cup, if no marks are lost. The final tests, I have always understood, are to decide the !timings in each class if more than one car has won an Alpine Cup, or alternatively, if there are two or more ears having lost the same number

of marks. The I’intes; in their final report on the Trial, said that the 3f-litre .Iaguar and the 2-litre Frazer-Nash shared the honour of recording the finest performance in the

event as a whole—who is right ? I am, Yours, ete.,

Hounslow. D. TIMER. /Our correspondent is right. There is no official ” best performance ” in the Alpine. Jaguar and Fraser-Nash t tied for fastest time in the final test and both. lost no marks, They share class wins with Renault, Simea, H.R.G. and (tie) Aston-Martin and Healey. But. Jaguar took the Team Award—-En.]