{"id":494219,"date":"2015-01-01T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.sportscardigest.com\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:04","slug":"jaguar-d-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jaguar-d-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Pearson \u2013 Jaguar D-type"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.<\/p>\n

Photo: Roger Dixon<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM mock-up body attached, which was discarded, binned, replaced and restored to be a conventional Lotus 22. However, my first ever race was in my father\u2019s D-type Jaguar. I was brought up with D-types, and despite racing many other exotic cars the D-type has always been my favorite. I think I must have raced at least 10 different D-type Jaguars in my time. Considering I have been fortunate enough to have raced five different Ferrari 250 GTOs, the David Piper Porsche 917, the 1960 Le Mans-winning Ferrari Testa Rossa TR60\u2014that was a fabulous car to drive, so very different to a regular pontoon Testa Rossa, in fact a world away in performance terms\u2014I still come back to my greatest racecar, the D-Type Jaguar. I suppose some of the affection is in my blood because of my father\u2019s love for the car, but it is a challenging car to drive too. I would say satisfying and great fun to handle. A well-sorted D-Type should be a perfectly balanced car. Having said that, when racing the car is always on the move, so you have to be comfortable with this attribute, it\u2019s not like taming the car, they don\u2019t bite, but they slide when going quickly. You have to be more at ease with it\u2014similar to driving a Maserati 250F\u2014another great car I\u2019ve driven.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n