Last weekend Tom Walkinshaw passed away at the age of 63 and we lost another great figure in motor sport. Founder of TWR and a successful Touring Car driver, Walkinshaw was also an active race car manufacturer from the 1980s to the mid 1990s.
As early as 1984, TWR began their extensive partnership with Jaguar to produce Touring and Group-C cars. This resulted in two overall wins at Le Mans and three World Sportscar Championships. One of the cars that achieved this success was the 1988 Jaguar XJR-9LM.
TWR also made some of Britain’s best supercars. They developed the Jaguar XJ220 and a TWR version. Furthermore they founded Jaguar Sports which produced the XJR-15. Around the same period Walkinshaw became engineering director of the Benetton F1 team and won the 1994 Formula One World Championship with Michael Schumacher behind the wheel.
