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But the incredible achievement for which he will always be remembered is as Jaguar\u2019s sports racing car team boss in the \u201950s, when XK120s, C-Types and D-Types won the 24 Hours of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":579362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18159,11272,261,18114,18330,18207],"tags":[18323,17152,374,1063,1451,13298,11657,13774,11349,415,11753,11963,324,2265,17140,548,18435,12200,11346,18107,16791,1148,17143,17216],"class_list":["post-491486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-era","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-people","category-profiles-car-culture","category-special-feature","tag-2010s-all","tag-car-culture","tag-england","tag-united-kingdom","tag-daimler","tag-e-r-a","tag-grand-prix","tag-tripoli-grand-prix","tag-gp-history","tag-jaguar","tag-jaguar-c-type","tag-jaguar-d-type","tag-maserati","tag-maserati-8cm","tag-members-only","tag-motorsport","tag-people","tag-dick-seaman","tag-driver-profiles","tag-people-profiles","tag-profiles","tag-24-hours-of-le-mans","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frank Raymond Wilton - \u201cLofty\u201d\u2008England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Newman tells the tale of the man who ran Jaguar\u2019s factory racing effort during its Glory Days.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lofty-england\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lofty-england\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frank Raymond Wilton - \u201cLofty\u201d\u2008England\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Newman tells the tale of the man who ran Jaguar\u2019s factory racing effort during its Glory Days.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lofty-england\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-09-01T16:00:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-27T03:07:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/HE201009-p1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"617\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Robert Newman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Newman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/lofty-england\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/lofty-england\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Robert Newman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a6bb7003c06481e9ed650a2b44c3e3c3\"},\"headline\":\"Frank Raymond Wilton &#8211; 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