{"id":491960,"date":"2011-08-01T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:46:31","slug":"the-pride-of-jaguar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-pride-of-jaguar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pride of Jaguar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one of the richest of these competition records belongs to Jaguar. In North America, much of that history has been written by Bob Tullius\u2019 Group 44 Inc. Commencing with an SCCA B Production National Championship at the Road Atlanta Runoffs in 1975 and continuing over two subsequent decades, the partnership generated 15 Trans-Am victories and two championships, as well as nine IMSA GTP wins in an era dominated by Porsche\u2019s 962.<\/p>\n

Bob Tullius says he\u2019s had a racer\u2019s mindset since leaving his mother\u2019s womb, and recalls with relish the Schwinn-built \u201cEnglish Racer\u201d bicycle of his youth\u2014while all his friends were still riding fat-tired single-speeds. He readily admits his imagination was irrevocably captured by the sport when as a pre-teen he and his dad first climbed the back fence at Caledonia Speedway near his hometown of Rochester, N.Y.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n