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StarLight Garage presents another Jaguar, this time a race car from APEX Motorsport ... the Jaguar XKR-S GT3 from 2007 which run in the GT3 European Championship between 2007 and 2009. This time not a racing green but a gorgeous racing blue one.
Enjoy this gem!
Between 2007 and 2009, Apex Motorsport were a factory approved entrant into the FIA GT3 European Sports Car series with the Jaguar XKR-S.
For the GT3 Championship were in total four cars built, each one an evolution and improvement of its predecessor.
Run by the very experienced and talented World Sports Car Racing expert, Richard Lloyd, the team were starting to become competitive and the car looked to be a potential winner when tragedy struck. The team were involved in an air disaster on the way to a test at Paul Ricard which sadly claimed the lives of all 5 on board, including Richard Lloyd, and their test driver, the very talented and much missed - David Leslie.
The team was destroyed, both emotionally and physically, and sadly the project was halted.
Jaguar enthusiast and sponsor, Stuart Scott, bought the first car which now resides in the Jaguar Heritage Museum. The last car (chassis no. 4) which in the past has been raced by Mike Jordan, Neil Cunningham and Bradley Ellis.
Later on Phil Quaife and Stuart Hall qualified this car 2nd at the Silverstone round of the 2008 European GT championship and finished 5th.
Johnny Mowlem test drove the car for Motorsport magazine in 2010 and reflected on what a fantastic car it is and the inevitable 'what could have been' side to the Apex story.
Today, it still offers an exciting and competitive package with over 510 BHP on offer from the supercharged V8 4.2 engine, a 6 speed Hewland flat shift sequential gearbox, 3 way In-Trax bespoke dampers, AP 6 pot front calipers on 375mm discs and 4 pot rear calipers on 330mm discs, long range (108 ltr) quick fill ATL tank with refuelling, Motec dash and data-logging and a T45 structural roll cage all in a solid, strong but yet lightweight shell, (total car weight: 1240 kg) complete with inboard air jacks.
Source APEX Motorsport
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