Unsurprisingly PH's story on the Petrolicious
Jaguar XJR-15 video
has been received rather well, attracting dozens of comments where many video features often struggle to breach double figures. No surprise really, the combination of gorgeous cinematography, a staggering car and a personable owner drawing PHers in like kids to an ice cream van.
It was nice to focus on Jaguar's forgotten supercar too, the XJR-15 living in the shadow of the already overlooked XJ220. It's hard to picture a race car derived, V12, manual Jaguar track car - the road car modifications made the handling notoriously tricky - falling on tough times today, but the XJR-15 has never been as revered as some of its contemporaries.
It deserves further celebration too because Jaguar raced the XJR-15, a photo from which features as this Friday's Pic of the Week. 'The International Challenge by Jaguar Sport' may sound like something from Gran Turismo, but by pitching 16 identical XJR-15s against each other on three GP tracks - Monaco, Spa and Silverstone - in 1991, it created perhaps the coolest F1 support car series since M1 Procar.
This image comes from the first round at Monaco, 10 (!) XJR-15s in view as Bob Wollek leads into the first corner. So that's nearly 20 per cent of all the XJR-15s ever made, racing at one of the most iconic race tracks in the world. On a desktop wallpaper. Right now. For you. Don't say PH never does anything for its readers...