Jaguar For British GT's

egor · 27 Feb 2003, 16:22 (Ref:519397)

It was reported in this weeks Motorsport News that Allen Lloyd has commissioned an XK8 GT Racer.
It will be a GTO spec race car, which has been in developement for the last two years. The machine has already tested and will race this year.

SFonseca · 27 Feb 2003, 17:03 (Ref:519434)

who is Allen Lloyd?

KA · 27 Feb 2003, 17:37 (Ref:519466)

Allen Lloyd has been a regular on the UK historic racing scene, usually in a variety of Jaguars- saloons, E-Types and historic Group C. He was also a British GT regular a few years back, most notably with his ex-TWR Le Mans Jaguar XJ220C

SFonseca · 27 Feb 2003, 19:13 (Ref:519562)

Thanks KA. Do you know where can I find pictures of the car?

rdjones · 27 Feb 2003, 19:21 (Ref:519573)

Not seen this weeks Motorsport News, this is an interesting development, maybe we might end up with a full work Jaguar entry at Le Mans in a few years time, when the Ford paymasters pull the plug on there F1 project.........

TVRfan · 27 Feb 2003, 19:36 (Ref:519597)

i believe the guy runs a jag dealership doesnt he? same as martin short wwith the tvr last year. could mean very close cooperation with the factory, such as tvr and shorty! heres hoping! dont reckon the car will be brilliant tho, very heavy! great to see new cars in the class1

jase · 27 Feb 2003, 19:50 (Ref:519615)

Wouldn't expect Allen Lloyd to get much "works" assistance, he has always been (afaik) a privateer, but he is a hard racer. Should be good to see.

And I remember the Jag 220 in the BGT's had speed, eventually, but was far too heavy to be seriously competitive

Allen also runs a GT40

MGF · 27 Feb 2003, 21:22 (Ref:519691)

Quote:

maybe we might end up with a full work Jaguar entry at Le Mans in a few years time, when the Ford paymasters pull the plug on there F1 project.........

He shoots, he scores!!

About time something was done about that shower

jase · 27 Feb 2003, 21:29 (Ref:519699)

Quote:

Originally posted by rdjones
Not seen this weeks Motorsport News, this is an interesting development, maybe we might end up with a full work Jaguar entry at Le Mans in a few years time, when the Ford paymasters pull the plug on there F1 project.........

Ford only care about F1 and Rallying, but if they drop F1, a years budget should be enough money for 4 whole seasons of GT racing.If only.

rdjones · 27 Feb 2003, 21:57 (Ref:519732)

Quote:

Originally posted by jasongore
Ford only care about F1 and Rallying, but if they drop F1, a years budget should be enough money for 4 whole seasons of GT racing.If only.

We can only dream

Fogelhund · 28 Feb 2003, 03:20 (Ref:520058)

I just hope that Ford doesn't tire of Jaguar itself losing money again and pull the plug on that.

egor · 28 Feb 2003, 08:36 (Ref:520191)

Allen Lloyd is the man behind Lloyds Chemists I believe, but he is also a non-executive director of Jaguar cars. So there may be some factory involvment some where.

The car has been built by Gerry Wainwright (who is Allen's regular co-driver in the pan-european group C championship) hopes the car would produce around 400bhp from the 4 litre Jag engine. They have also had to carry out a lot of work to reduce the weight of the car.

Hopefully all this work will pay off for them and they have a great year in British GT's.

Smokey 6 litre · 28 Feb 2003, 10:03 (Ref:520254)

i dont know,
aren't Jaguar bringing out a new sports car soon,
the 'F' type,
wouldn't it make sence to wait for that and use the GTs as advertising for that.
If it follows the style and principles as the old 'E' tpe then it should kick arse.

KA · 28 Feb 2003, 11:01 (Ref:520293)

Quote:

Originally posted by egor
Allen Lloyd is the man behind Lloyds Chemists I believe, but he is also a non-executive director of Jaguar cars.

I'm sure that's him- think he's got a pretty impressive collection of historic Jaguars

It's certainly a brave project- I can't imagine Jaguar ever had racing in mind when they designed the car, so it's going to take a lot of work to make something competitive.

It's good to see someone taking on the challenge of running something a bit different though- particularly as it's a Jaguar

**Aysedasi** · 28 Feb 2003, 12:43 (Ref:520364)

This is the guy who raced several cars at the Le Mans Classic, yes?

egor · 28 Feb 2003, 13:01 (Ref:520387)

Yes I believe so, he competes often in historic races. I think he also owns an XJR16 aswell as more older historic Jaguars of all types.

Smokey 6 litre · 3 Mar 2003, 14:20 (Ref:523482)

i never really liked that jag,
too high and the weels are too thin,
why not a DB7,
i've seen one of them race.

KA · 3 Mar 2003, 16:59 (Ref:523607)

Someone did plan to run a DB7 in GTO a couple of years ago- think there was even a car built, but don't know what came of it....

jase · 3 Mar 2003, 17:35 (Ref:523633)

I believe that it runs accasionally in AMOC's Intermarque races

Graham Goodwin · 3 Mar 2003, 17:40 (Ref:523639)

It does indeed - and a thing of great lovelieness it is too!

Osella · 4 Mar 2003, 01:47 (Ref:524058)

Quote:

Originally posted by Smokey 6 litre
i never really liked that jag,
too high and the weels are too thin,
why not a DB7,
i've seen one of them race.

is this a poem?

haiku maybe?

jase · 4 Mar 2003, 07:04 (Ref:524178)

Graham, if I recall correctly, the goal of the Aston was to eventually race in the BGT's, any idea if it really will.

IMO, seeing Jaguar and Aston Martin, 2 names synomenous with Britain, going head to head with each other would be a promotional coup surely.

Craner Curves · 6 Mar 2003, 17:03 (Ref:526767)

Quote:

Originally posted by KA
Someone did plan to run a DB7 in GTO a couple of years ago- think there was even a car built, but don't know what came of it....

What is that stretched Aston Martin Vantage replica car that's been in the Heritage Grand Touring Challenge at the Toca events last year?

Graham Goodwin · 6 Mar 2003, 17:23 (Ref:526790)

The DB7 is unlikely to get into BGTs (unless it qualifies a s a cup class car) as the current supercharged '6' doesn't have nearly enough grunt to compete in GTO.

The big yellow Aston is known as a GT700 and was built by super-successful Aston club racer David Ellis - It was due to race originally in the late (un)lamented ISC but was then refused an entry before the one and only round - A fantastic looking beast though!!

Smokey 6 litre · 10 Mar 2003, 15:15 (Ref:531474)

Quote:

Originally posted by Graham Goodwin

The big yellow Aston is known as a GT700 and was built by super-successful Aston club racer David Ellis - It was due to race originally in the late (un)lamented ISC but was then refused an entry before the one and only round - A fantastic looking beast though!!

i cant find a picture of that,
i went to google and entered Aston Martin GT700 but got nothing,
do you know where i can find a picture or what to type into google to get one.

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