Jaguar's brilliant Group C XJR-9 won out at Le Mans after a titanic, race-long scrap with the Porsche 962C on this day in 1988. In today's Great Read, Andrew Frankel drives both of them
What was the greatest moment in sports car racing? Some might well say Pedro Rodríguez's win in the '71 Österreichring 1000Km was unassailable for its sheer spectacle, other's that the Hermann–Ickx battle for victory at Le Mans in 1969 is where the clock stopped. Maybe you'd go for Pierre Levegh driving 22 hours solo at Le Mans in '52. But for me it was always Le Mans 1988, the event history will come to recall as the very pinnacle of the ultimate sports car era – that described by one little word and one little letter: Group C.
To the protagonists, this race meant everything. In one corner sat Jaguar, still smarting from disaster the year before, in the other Porsche...
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