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The Heroes of Jaguar
Stirling’s C-Change The Jaguar C-type was the car that pioneered disc brake technology in 1952, when a young Stirling Moss…
Stirling’s C-Change The Jaguar C-type was the car that pioneered disc brake technology in 1952, when a young Stirling Moss…
The true value of most great technological breakthroughs can usually only be appreciated with the benefit of hindsight. Life didn’t…
When Moss won at Reims, the disc brake was already almost half a century old, as patent applications for just…
Ron Flockhart could have won anything if given the chance.” That’s the view of the Scottish driver’s business partner and…
Marque loyalty is an old-fashioned concept these days. A driver will swap seats after a season or two, a designer…
This is the only thing that survived the fire,” says Nigel Webb handing me a small, but weighty piece of…
Jaguar shocks Le Mans with second win Having celebrated its first victory at La Sarthe in 1951, few thought Jaguar…
The Le Mans 24 Hours carries with it more tradition and history than any other event, and the occasion of…
Stirling Moss preferred the C- to the D-type. The latter was tauter and faster – at Le Mans at least…
We’re out the back now, the chicanes behind us. The oil is warm, the slicks are hot. I can feel…
If any Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9LM was going to win, it was going to have to beat the Porsche 962C…
1953 Hamilton orders the double brandies (allegedly) It’s one of the great stories, and told first hand, too. In Duncan…
The look on Martin Brundle’s face the minute he walks into the garage at Silverstone is a picture. There’s an…
Tom Walkinshaw was key to Jaguar’s return to racing in the 1980s, persuading the factory to take on a campaign…
Carbon-fibre monocoque “These cars are heavy – nearly 900kilos – and they go monumentally quick, so you had two fundamental…
Paradise lost It never even entered a race, let alone won Le Mans, yet within the Jaguar XJ13 lies the…
What is it about the Jaguar XJ13? What other racing car could have once attracted an offer of £7 million…
On the surface it’s a typical Goodwood track day, freshly minted E-types and suchlike gently being fettled in readiness for…
Tiff Needell “My first thought is that it must have been extremely dangerous, because Flux was driving one! But, in…
Ford and Red Bull in alliance for 2026? These two have previous, and it didn’t end well. OK, the colours,…
It was the kind of invitation you don’t receive too often, a chance to wander unchallenged into a contemporary Formula 1 pit and inspect the merchandise. Some teams have security…
Max Verstappen took a brilliant win in front of the thousands of Dutch fans at the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix A Red Bull wins at the Red Bull Ring Photo: Motorsport Images…
Renault has revealed what it thinks the Formula 1 cars of the future should look like a decade from now. Labeled R.S. 2027 Vision, it is an interactive open-wheel racer with…
Lotus Beats Cooper in F.J. 10-Lap Event in which Jimmy Clark Sets a Lap Record of 90.38 m.p.h. IT is an extremely good omen for the 1960 Goodwood season, that,…