Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012: Historic racers

One of the big appeals of the Goodwood Festival of Speed is that you get to see racing cars that often spend the rest of their lives sitting in a museum or tucked up in someone’s heated garage. But better still, everyone of them gets blasted up the hill as fast as possible and against the clock – there’s no better way to experience these gems than in the white-heat of competition.

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1978 Jaguar XJS Trans-Am

Turning a luxurious GT car in the shape of the XJS into a proper racing machine is the work of evil genius, because despite its graceful curves in road-car form it looks the business when stripped for the track. It was a success too; this car and its sister entrant won the Trans-Am manufacturer’s title for the second year running in 1978, taking 13 wins in the process. It also used a very British V12 to beat the
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1978 Jaguar XJS Trans-Am

Turning a luxurious GT car in the shape of the XJS into a proper racing machine is the work of evil genius, because despite its graceful curves in road-car form it looks the business when stripped for the track. It was a success too; this car and its sister entrant won the Trans-Am manufacturer’s title for the second year running in 1978, taking 13 wins in the process. It also used a very British V12 to beat the American’s V8-powered machines. less

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