To open this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed today, the Duke of Richmond drove his exquisite Écurie Écosse Jaguar D-Type up the hillclimb. 1950s sports car success for the marque put Britain on the international racing map. In today's Great Read, Paul Parker speaks to several key players in the Jaguar D-type's incredible story
Those who drove the D-type in period have mixed feelings about the car. And perhaps because he drove it during its development phase — and had met with such success in the C-type — Stirling Moss has the least flattering memories of it.
"The C-type was much nicer to drive than the D, which was a less accurate car. We had lots of problems with the D's disc brakes: flexing hubs caused pad knock-oft vaporisation and much more. We went up the escape road at Mulsanne as many times as we went round the corner during practice at Le Mans in 1954..."
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