Having celebrated its first victory at La Sarthe in 1951, few thought Jaguar could do it again two years later with largely the same car. Cue a record-breaking display that put the British marque’s rivals in the shade.

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Having previously put a Porsche 962C through its paces, Andrew Frankel finally gets to drive the sports racer that gave the Germans a mauling in 1987 – the Jaguar XJR-8. And this chassis was the wildest of all