This programme charts the long awaited of return of Jaguar to Le Mans in 1980's. Jaguar teamed up with the American Group 44 team who designed and produced a sports racing car around the Jaguar V12 engine. Two cars were entered for the 1984 race but both failed to finish. In 1985 a Group 44 car managed to finish the race in thirteenth place winning the GTP category the first time in twenty-two years that a Jaguar had been classified as a finisher. Following the success of Tom Walkinshaw and his TWR Racing Team which dominated the European Touring Car Championship with... the Jaguar XJS TWR were given the task of designing a sports racing car to win Le Mans for Jaguar. [show more]
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Documentary focusing on the return of Jaguar to Le Mans in the 1980s. After building a historic pedigree at the circuit during the 1950s, Jaguar withdraw from the race during the late 1960s and 1970s, when the dominance of purpose-built sportscars become the norm. But in 1984, two cars, American-built and based around the Jaguar V12 engine, were entered, although neither finished the race. After their success in the European Touring Car Championship, the TWR Racing Team were asked to design a sports car for Jaguar capable of winning Le Mans, duly restoring Jaguar to winning ways in 1988.
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