Jaguar at Le Mans Artwork
Fabrice Lachavanne recreates a moment from Jaguar’s second victory in the fabled 24 Hours of Le Mans.
As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, but no one anticipated the power of the new Dunlop disc brakes on the Jaguar C-Type. In the end, the Jaguar pairing of Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt took Jaguar’s second Le Mans victory in three years, with the team car of Stirling Moss and Peter Walker rolling home in 2nd place in a race where all the class records were broken and the first four finishers cracked the 4000-kilometer barrier for the first time.
