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Silk Cut Jaguar won the Teams Championship and Jaguar driver Martin Brundle won the Drivers title. Jaguar's success at Le Mans marked the first time since 1980 that Porsche had not won Le Mans, and the first Le Mans victory for Jaguar since 1957. For 1989, the XJR-9 was again entered in both IMSA Camel GTP and the World Sports Prototype ...
The Jaguar XJR-12 is a sports-prototype race car built by the Jaguar Cars-backed Tom Walkinshaw Racing team for both Group C and IMSA Camel GTP.The XJR-12 is famous for winning the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
A Jaguar XJR-5 at Sears Point in 1983. Starting in 1983, the project was started by an American team Group 44 Racing, headed up by owner-driver Bob Tullius, who had the backing of Jaguar to build the Fabcar designed racer known as XJR-5 in their Herndon, Virginia, US, shop and to campaign it in the IMSA Camel GTP championship.
In the 1980s racing expert Tom Walkinshaw and designer Tony Southgate, with support from the Jaguar company and a sponsor, Silk Cut, [2] designed a car based on the Jaguar V12 to compete in the ultra-high performance Le Mans Group C class and the North American-based IMSA GT Championship in competition with Porsche and Mercedes. In all, sixty ...
Castrol Jaguar winning the 1988 24 Hours of Daytona with the XJR-9; Silk Cut Jaguar winning the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans with the XJR-12; Castrol Jaguar winning the 1990 24 Hours of Daytona with the XJR-12; Silk Cut Jaguar winning the 1991 World Sportscar Championship with the XJR-14 and XJR-12; Justin Law winning the 2008 and 2010 editions of ...
Silk Cut Jaguar Jan Lammers Johnny, Earl Dumfries Andy Wallace Jaguar XJR-9LM 1.359 3 Gr.C1 22 Silk Cut Jaguar Derek Daly Larry Perkins Kevin Cogan Jaguar XJR-9LM 1.216 4 Gr.C2 111 BP Spice Engineering Gordon Spice Ray Bellm Pierre de Thoisy Spice-Fiero SE88C 1.214 5 Gr.C1 19 Porsche AG Mario Andretti Michael Andretti John Andretti Porsche 962C ...
The series started in 1985 with XJR-6 (Group 44 used the XJR-5 and XJR-7), designed by Tony Southgate, with a chassis built from carbon-fibre and power provided by a highly tuned Jaguar V12 engine. This was followed by XJR-8, which won the WSCC Team's Championship in 1987, then XJR-9 which won the WSCC Team's Championship in 1988 and also ...
Silk Cut Jaguar: Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever: Jaguar XJR-6: D: 40 Jaguar 6.5L V12 15 DNF C1 53 Silk Cut Jaguar: Gianfranco Brancatelli Jean-Louis Schlesser: Jaguar XJR-6: D: 12 Jaguar 6.5L V12 16 DNF C2 99 Roy Baker Racing Tiga: John Sheldon Thorkild Thyrring: Tiga GC286: A: 12 Ford Cosworth BDT 1.7L Turbo I4 17 DNF C1 55 Danone Porsche ...