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How a French car won Le Mans for the first time since 1950, helped by Graham Hill.

Due to the global economic downturn of the early Nineties, Jaguar and its racing partner, TWR, had already pulled out of the World Sportscar Championship at the end of the 1991 season and then the American IMSA series the following year. But with the team contemplating a return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1993, three V12-powered XJR 12Ds were entered into the Daytona 24 Hours in late January as a way of gathering race experience with the cars.

It’s 70 years since Mercedes-Benz won at Le Mans in the 300SL Gullwing. Here we go again.

Due to Jaguar’s dominant victory of the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hours race with the C-type, success the following year seemed a certainty

Raymond Boutinaud recently restored the one and only 928 to contest the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We take a trip to his workshop and check out this legendary ‘land shark’ for ourselves

The C-Type and D-type may have owned the LeMans 24 Hours during the Fifties, with five victories between them, but they weren’t the only Jaguar sports cars to take part in the famed endurance race at this time.