XJR-9 IS YOUR FAVOURITE RACING JAGUAR

1 XJR-9 Result: 39.3%

A poll asking for your favourite racing Jaguar was always going to be a competitive and eclectic contest. But even so the victor – the Le Mans-winning XJR-9 of 1988 – doesn’t feel like too much of a surprise.

There always is something about Le Mans of course, yet this car’s patriotic triumph in 1988 was especially stirring. It was Jaguar’s first Le Mans win since 1957, and the first in this celebrated endurance race since 1980 for anything other than what had long seemed insurmountable Porsche 956s and 962s.

And this win provided the crescendo of the famous determined Tom Walkinshaw Racing Silk Cut-liveried Group C effort, whose endeavours stretched back to 1985. Yes, Jaguar the previous year had already shown its wares by taking the World Sportscar Championship, but