HOW TOM WALKINSHAW REIGNITED THE JAGUAR RACING PASSION IN SPORTSCARS
The story of how Peter Brock unknowingly influenced Tom Walkinshaw’s epoch-defining 1980s and early 1990s heyday with legendary Jaguar projects is just one never-before-told fascinating strand of Jaguar’s racing heritage.
Its unofficial narrator is a man still imbued in racing with the Big Cat and is the only senior player that straddles the Group C glory days to the current sparky quests for Jaguar to take a first World championship since 1991 when Teo Fabi and the Silk Cut Jaguar team claimed World Sportscar Championship honours.
Three years previously, while Johnny Dumfries,Andy Wallace and Jan Lammers stood beneath the famous Le Mans clock and savoured a sea of Jaguar fans, at the other side of the world, that same man, one who would straddle the last 34 years of Jaguar history, was preparing to board a flight fromAustralia to the UK to begin that very adventure.
His name is Craig Wilson, who began work as production and engineering manager at Jaguar Sport in June 1988. When he entered the modest offices on that unremarkable
