{"id":26855,"date":"2012-05-17T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=26855"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T09:13:48","slug":"jaguar-le-mans-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/jaguar-le-mans-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar & Le Mans, 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some truly amazing footage here from a documentary focusing on the 1954 24 Heures Du Mans.<\/p>\n

It’s all pretty gripping but highlight for me is right at the start when the Jaguar team emerge from the Browns Lane<\/a> plant with those immaculate new D-Types, heading for the coast and the drive down to the Circuit De la Sarthe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can see here how seat of the pants and simple the scene was this far back: though the Jags were pulling close to 180 MPH on the Mulsanne. No wonder Jaguar development engineer Norman Dewis<\/a>, who we were lucky enough to meet a few years ago for a feature in the magazine, was keen to introduce disc brakes!<\/p>\n

This sort of memory – the sounds, the sounds of those stirred boxes and the pure aesthetic of the whole spectacle – produces a proper lump in the throat.<\/p>\n

Note to self: Must go to the Le Mans Classic this year!<\/p>\n