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2 Nov 2001, 12:49 (Ref:168726)
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Jaguar XJ12 Touring Car
Anyone know much about this car. It raced in the 1976 ETC and half of 1977 until they pulled out, and they were the only factory team, why'd they pull out, who were the drivers and so on.
These 70s ETC cars were awesome got the Jag pic from this ETC history site: http://www.euronet.nl/users/in004021/ |
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2 Nov 2001, 13:22 (Ref:168735)
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The XJ12C was run by Broadspeed for British Leyland (owned Jag at the time)-and drivers included Derek Bell, Andy Rouse and Tim Schencken amongst others- John Fitzpatrick and David Hobbs come to mind, although I'm probably wrong on that.....
They pulled out at the end of 1977 due to lack of success. It was a bit of a lesson in how NOT to run a touring car programme- it was launched with huge hype before it was really ready to race and ended up missing a lot of races in the first season while the team tried to get it sorted. It was a very big heavy and complex car, and proved to be very fast but chronically unreliable It never won a race (didn't finish many...) but did collect a few pole positions and fastest laps- BL got fed up with the lack of success and pulled the plug on the project after the 1977 TT at Silverstone. Great car though.... |
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2 Nov 2001, 13:40 (Ref:168748)
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Just had a look at that website- brilliant. It's a shame that there's not much on the Group A cars yet, but some of the 70's stuff more than makes up for it- Ford v BMW in 1973 with drivers like Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi and Niki Lauda....
Can you imagine that happening now? a bit like Alfa announcing they'll be running cars for Schumacher and Barrichrello in selected ETCC races next year.... |
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2 Nov 2001, 15:33 (Ref:168817)
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A very charasmatic car the Broadspeed XJ12C, and one of my earliest racing memories. It was that TT in '77, and though it had been delayed the Jag was closing on Walkinshaws leading BMW at a second to second and a half per lap, it was going to be touch and go whether it was going to catch it before the end. So I was sat there with my stop watch, waiting to se how much it had closed in on the BMW that lap, and it was late, what had happened. Andy Rouse had dropped it going through Abbey, leaving a very upset 5 year old
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2 Nov 2001, 15:44 (Ref:168831)
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It was a great car. Proved that with enough power even a brick could fly! Didn't it clain second at the Nurburgring? |
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5 Nov 2001, 20:03 (Ref:170375)
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And to think this car is still around and racing at British tracks competing in Historic Touring car race meetings.
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