Three Jaguars

There was a collection of Jaguars in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998, and here are three of the cars that I photographed.

On the left is a 1988 Jaguar XJR-9LM which appears to be the car that won the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Jan Lammers, Johnny Dumfries and Andy Wallace. The car is powered by a 6,995cc version of the Jaguar V12 engine. Next to that is the Martini Jaguar XJ220 that was driven by private entrants in the 1993 Italian GT Championship series. This car has a 3,498cc twin-turbocharged V6 engine. The car on the right is the first of the XJR series of cars and was built, with the support of Jaguar, by American Bob Tullius and his Group 44 Racing team to compete in the IMSA Camel GTP Championship. It's the 1983 Jaguar XJR-5 and is powered by a 5,955cc V12 engine.

Jaguar XJR-5

This car competed in the 2 hour long British Empire Trophy race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001 driven by Paul Chudecki and 'to be nominated'.

It's the 1984 Jaguar XJR-5 of Don Miles, a car that was actually designed and built in the USA by the American Group 44 team of Bob Tullius, with backing from Jaguar, with the intention of competing in the IMSA GTP class at the Le Mans 24 Hour race. The two cars entered in the 1984 Le Mans race failed to finish, but in 1985 although one car again failed to finish the other car, driven by Bob Tullius, Chip Robinson and Claude Ballot-Léna, finished in 13th place and first in the GTP class. The XJR-5 originally had a 5,955cc V12 engine, but according to the programme of the event the car at Silverstone in 2001 had a 6½ litre engine.