One of the highlights of the recent 24 Hours of Le Mans was the Group C support race held on Saturday morning. The 10-lap sprint was won by Justin Law in this Jaguar XJR-8. Two days earlier he had also secured pole position in torrential conditions. The car used by Law is no stranger to winning as it helped Raoul Boesel secure the 1987 World Sportscar Championship with four victories. The highly successful XJR-8 was a development of the XJR-6 first raced for Jaguar by TWR during the 1985 season. The car combined a sophisticated carbon fibre chassis with a heavily developed version of Jaguar's V12 road car engine. After a difficult start, the Silk Cut liveried machines managed to end Porsche's stronghold on the championship. In 1987 the Jaguars won eight of the ten rounds but unfortunately one of the two races missed was the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That was rectified a year later when the latest XJR-9 won the most important of all endurance races.
Law has raced the XJR-8 successfully since the summer of 2008, when he set the fastest time of the weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. He repeated that prestigious feat a year later, beating contemporary Formula 1 cars. We have captured the Jaguar XJR-8 twice at Goodwood and of course at Le Mans last week.
Another spectacular Jaguar out on track at Le Mans was this XJR-16. Built for the 1991 IMSA Series, it was driven to four victories by Davy Jones in this highly competitive championship. Unlike the V12-engined XJR-9, the XJR-16 uses a twin-turbocharged V6 engine, which also found its way into the XJ220 road car.

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1991 Jaguar XJR-16 - Images, Specifications and Information

1987 Jaguar XJR-8 - Images, Specifications and Information