Teo Fabi won the 1991 World Endurance Championship on this day for Jaguar. His XJR-14 and Reinhold Joest's double Le Mans-Winning Porsche WSC95 are, under the skin, one and the same. Gary Watkins reports
We all know that there is only one individual sports car in history to not only claim a World Championship but also Le Mans not once but twice. The story of the John Wyer Gulf GT40 and how it won the '68 manufacturers' crown for Ford with the first of back-to-back victories in the French enduro is part of racing legend.
But we are all wrong. There is another car, another individual chassis, which did it again rather more recently. And the reason the tale of the lone machine to match the Ford's achievements is only just emerging? The car won the World Championship as a Jaguar, and both of its Le Mans as a Porsche...
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