WHY LE MANS STIRRED JAGUAR INTO RACE-WINNING ACTION
If motor racing is a niche sport today, so it assuredly was in the 1950s. Much – indeed most – of it took place with most of the population in ignorance of results, save for one key race: Le Mans.
Jag head William Lyons held the belief that there was really only one sportscar race worth winning and that was Le Mans. That race certainly did attract attention and was guaranteed to boost sales of road cars.
Jaguar first appeared at Le Mans in 1950 with a trio of XK120s, the most impressive of which was that of Leslie Johnson/Bert Hadley that was
