Big Cat Back in Le Mans

Jaguar are celebrating 75 years on road and track with a return to the Le Mans 24 hour race, the British marque are entering with the GT2 class XKR.

Recently I saw Paul Gentilozzi’s XKR racer at the Autosport International Show, and people say the XKR GT2 will bear a strong resemblance although the livery may change.
The big cat have a great pedigree in this race, starting with the C-Type that won on it’s first entry in 1951 and then again in 1953. Since then they have won another 5 times, the 4th highest win count of any make.

The beautiful Jaguar D-Type won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1955, ‘56 and ‘57.

This, the Jaguar XJR-9LM, was a V12 powered Group C car that won the race in 1988.

Here’s hoping the JaguarRSR XKR will do well enough in the GT2 class that a bigger, fiercer cat will enter the GT1 or LMP1 race very soon…