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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…
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Stirling Moss and the Jaguar C-type: Unearthing the Braking Innovation of 1952
The true value of most great technological breakthroughs can usually only be appreciated with the benefit of hindsight. Life didn’t…
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Dunlop and Jaguar: Pioneers of Disc Brake Technology in Road and Racing Cars
When Moss won at Reims, the disc brake was already almost half a century old, as patent applications for just…
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The Remarkable Life and Tragic End of Ron Flockhart: A Racing Hero
Ron Flockhart could have won anything if given the chance.” That’s the view of the Scottish driver’s business partner and…
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Lunch with Norman Dewis
Marque loyalty is an old-fashioned concept these days. A driver will swap seats after a season or two, a designer…
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Inside the Mike Hawthorn Museum: A Rare Glimpse into Racing History
This is the only thing that survived the fire,” says Nigel Webb handing me a small, but weighty piece of…
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Jaguar and Endurance
Jaguar shocks Le Mans with second win Having celebrated its first victory at La Sarthe in 1951, few thought Jaguar…
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Le Mans 1953: A Historic Race Where Jaguars Defied Expectations
The Le Mans 24 Hours carries with it more tradition and history than any other event, and the occasion of…
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Jaguar C-Type: How a British Icon Outshone the Competition at Le Mans
Stirling Moss preferred the C- to the D-type. The latter was tauter and faster – at Le Mans at least…
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Unleashing the Jaguar XJR-8: A Symphony of Speed and Power
We’re out the back now, the chicanes behind us. The oil is warm, the slicks are hot. I can feel…
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Epic Le Mans Showdown: Jaguar XJR-9LM vs. Porsche 962C
If any Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9LM was going to win, it was going to have to beat the Porsche 962C…
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Jaguar’s defining Le Mans moments
1953 Hamilton orders the double brandies (allegedly) It’s one of the great stories, and told first hand, too. In Duncan…
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Martin Brundle back in Group C Jaguar XJR-12
The look on Martin Brundle’s face the minute he walks into the garage at Silverstone is a picture. There’s an…
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Tom Walkinshaw: The Mastermind Behind Jaguar's Racing Revival
Tom Walkinshaw was key to Jaguar’s return to racing in the 1980s, persuading the factory to take on a campaign…
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Aerodynamic Innovations: How Jaguar's XJR Outsmarted the Porsche 962
Carbon-fibre monocoque “These cars are heavy – nearly 900kilos – and they go monumentally quick, so you had two fundamental…
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Jaguar Sporting moments
Paradise lost It never even entered a race, let alone won Le Mans, yet within the Jaguar XJ13 lies the…
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The Untapped Potential: Jaguar XJ13's Missed Opportunity in Racing
What is it about the Jaguar XJ13? What other racing car could have once attracted an offer of £7 million…
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Jaguar XJR-15 Owners Assemble at Goodwood: A Rare Reunion
On the surface it’s a typical Goodwood track day, freshly minted E-types and suchlike gently being fettled in readiness for…
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Tiff Needell and Ian Flux Remember Racing the Wild Jaguar XJR-15
Tiff Needell “My first thought is that it must have been extremely dangerous, because Flux was driving one! But, in…
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The Jaguar F1 horror that still haunts Ford
Ford and Red Bull in alliance for 2026? These two have previous, and it didn’t end well. OK, the colours,…
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