Buy this book on-line WELLS, KEN: : THE JAGUAR CHALLENGE - Story of 1986 Le Mans RaceLONDON.KIMBERLEYS,1986. ISBN 0946132399.
UK,Qrto HB no dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn.
FINE.Qrto,pictorial colour photographic laminated bds (boards),13pp,b/w+colour photographs.
To the British,the 1986 race presented a quandary.The man they'd always supported, Derek Bell,was the living embodiment of what they regarded as the biggest threat to a dream win by JAGUAR,the works Porsche team.A Catch 22 situation - Jaguar to win but not for 'Dinger' to lose.
This was the team that everyone had come to see and many hoped would end Porsche's domination at The Sarte.They had done it at Silverstone,so why not Le Mans? The serious money though,was on one of the trio of works Porsches,not to be discounted was the awesome 956,chassis 117,from the Joest stable.The aura and reverence that now surrounds this double Le Mans winner is almost tangible and nobody was likely to bet against it completing the hat-trick.At the same time Brun Motorsport was gradually becoming a more potent force in Group C,with the ample talents of Thierry Boutsen and Oscar
Larrauri leading their challenge,while Swiss rival Peter Sauber was fielding a pair of Mercedes C8's.These,then,were the leading teams that formed up on the grid.
Ready to give him a run for their money were Porsches from Kremer,Richard Lloyd,
John Fitzpatrick Racing and Obermaier and the Primagaz Cougar C12.The Japanese quest for glory came from Nissan Motorsports,Mazda Speed and a couple of Toyotas,while in the 'C' class the pace-setters were Spice Engineering,Pontiac Fiero and Roussiard Rondeau leading a bunch of other hopefuls.Photographs of every car in the race.
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