What if the Ford-Ferrari wars of the sixties had instead been the Ford-Ferrari-Jaguar wars? Peter Wilson’s new book XJ13 reveals how close this came to happening.
http://www.paulskilleterbooks.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=117
Of particular interest to the Ford GT/GT40 community is an entire chapter devoted to Jaguar’s in-house evaluation of a GT40 borrowed from Ford Advanced Vehicles. The report of the GT40 wind tunnel test conducted by Jaguar aerodynamicist/engineer Malcom Sayer is reproduced, as is the detailed GT40 track and technical evaluation report by XJ13 Project Engineer Mike Kimberley (later CEO of Lotus). These Jaguar internal documents, along with additional perspective and analysis by the author, provide a hard look at the GT40 through the eyes of a potential adversary, and reveal how XJ13 compared to it.
This book is a treasure-trove of never before published details of this then-secret project and the people involved. It's available only directly from the publisher Paul Skilleter, at the link above.
http://www.paulskilleterbooks.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=117
Of particular interest to the Ford GT/GT40 community is an entire chapter devoted to Jaguar’s in-house evaluation of a GT40 borrowed from Ford Advanced Vehicles. The report of the GT40 wind tunnel test conducted by Jaguar aerodynamicist/engineer Malcom Sayer is reproduced, as is the detailed GT40 track and technical evaluation report by XJ13 Project Engineer Mike Kimberley (later CEO of Lotus). These Jaguar internal documents, along with additional perspective and analysis by the author, provide a hard look at the GT40 through the eyes of a potential adversary, and reveal how XJ13 compared to it.
This book is a treasure-trove of never before published details of this then-secret project and the people involved. It's available only directly from the publisher Paul Skilleter, at the link above.
