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race car, designed, developed, and built by TWR for Jaguar, with the aim of competing, from 1989, in the

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. Jaguar XJR-10s competed until 1991, before Jaguar replaced it with the

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. The car debuted a new 3.0-liter

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, which replaced the previous

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, and was later fitted to the

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as well.

Wins/Victories

*300 km from Portland 1989 (Chassis 389) *2 Hours Del Mar 1989 (Chassis 389) *150 Lime Rock 150 1990 Towers (Chassis 389) *300 km from Portland 1990 (Chassis 589) *2 Hours of West Palm Beach 1991 (Chassis 589) *2 Hours of Miami 1990 (Chassis 389)

Drivers

Raul Boesel Raul de Mesquita Boesel (, born 4 December 1957) is a Brazilian former racing driver who raced for the March and Ligier Formula One teams and later raced in Champ Car and the Indy Racing League. He won the 1987 World Sportscar Championship and t ...

Martin Brundle Martin John Brundle (born 1 June 1959) is a British former racing driver, best known as a Formula One driver and as a commentator for ITV Sport from 1997 to 2008, the BBC from 2009 to 2011, and Sky Sports since 2012. Brundle contested the 1 ...

Price Cobb Price Cobb (born December 10, 1954) is an American race car driver. He won the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans together with John Nielsen and Martin Brundle in a Jaguar XJR-12. He also owned an Indy Racing League team in 1998 and 1999 for Roberto Guerrer ...

* Alain Ferte * David Jones *

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* David Leslie * John Nielsen

References

External links

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