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LeMans D Jaguar

Reflecting the cloudy sky, this D Type was finished in the team blue of Écurie Écosse (French for "Scotland Stable"). which was a motor racing team from Edinburgh, Scotland. When Jaguar retired from official works team racing, the Scots purchased D types, painted them Scottish blue (rather than the British Racing Green) and went back to LeMans and bloody Won outright 2 more LeMans!! In the 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson were the winning drivers in a Jaguar D-Type. Ron Flockhart won again with a D-Type in the 1957 event, partnered this time by Ivor Bueb. The team's second D-Type – driven by Sanderson and his new partner John Lawrence – finished second, a rare privateer 1–2 finish. Amazing!!! and in what I still think is the most beautiful race car of the era........as Enzo Ferrari was once quoted.......and he should know.

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Taken on August 15, 2013