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💡 The Art of Herding Gas: Why Combustion Chamber Shape Matters
While we develop our tera quad-cam V12 here in Royal Leamington Spa, close to Coventry, I've been harvesting the bits every enthusiast deserves to know. Part 2: why chamber shape is really the art of herding gas.
The Heart of the Matter: Making Fire Work for You
How engines really burn fuel - Neville opens the tera V12 development diary with combustion basics.
7 of 7 - We will be back
A tie at 82 broken only by wins, a Teams' table level on 47 — the 1986 standings show how close the XJR-6 really came.
6 of 7 - The long run-in: Jerez, Spa and the Nürburgring consolation
Gravel at Jerez, the race of the year at Spa, Cheever's Nürburgring win and a Fuji farewell — the 1986 title fight to its last round.
5 of 7 - La Sarthe: twenty-three hours, and "we will be back"
Three Jaguars, an experimental tail, an 8.30am blowout — and a banner "we will be back" the British fans carried home.
4 of 7 - Silk Cut and first blood: Silverstone, 5 May 1986
The purple livery broke cover at Monza in April. Five weeks later the XJR-6 beat Porsche in a World Championship race, at Stowe, on home ground.
3 of 7 - Debut at Mosport: the XJR-6 meets the world, August 1985
Round 6 of the 1985 World Championship, a bumpy Canadian circuit near Oshawa, and two dark Jaguars that nobody had raced before.
2 of 7 - Southgate's Silhouette: building the XJR-6
Carbon fibre, a 6.3-litre V12 and taped-shut doors: how Tony Southgate and TWR built Jaguar's Group C contender in under two years.
1 of 7 — "The Missing Link: the XJR-5 and the road back to Le Mans"
Every championship-winning Jaguar of the late 1980s traces back to an unlikely place: an American IMSA paddock, and a car built around a road-car engine.
TWR’s XJ-S V12 — The Wolf That Finally Won
If you read my piece about Broadspeed’s XJ12 Coupé — the fastest car that never won — you’ll remember the kindest verdict anyone passed on it: a snoozing Labrador that could show a remarkable turn of speed if only it could be bothered to get out of bed.