{"id":494546,"date":"2015-06-24T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=12104"},"modified":"2024-03-17T23:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T23:46:58","slug":"lm-legend-victory-for-ex-fangio-jaguar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lm-legend-victory-for-ex-fangio-jaguar\/","title":{"rendered":"LM Legend Victory for ex-Fangio Jaguar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jaguar C-Type once raced by Juan Manuel Fangio claimed victory in the 1949-1954 at this year\u2019s Le Mans Legend driven by John Young, posting the car\u2019s 22<sup>nd<\/sup> vintage race win from 25 starts. Entered by JD Classics, the Jag was chased home by its stablemate Cooper T33 in the hands of company MD Derek Hood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Le Mans Legend field was undoubtedly the toughest it\u2019s ever been,\u201d said Hood afterward, \u201cso our C-Type and Cooper T33 completing a class one-two finish is something we\u2019re extremely proud of. It also cements our ex-Fangio C-Type as the most successful of its kind in historic racing today \u2013 and that\u2019s down to the world-class engineers we\u2019ve got in our Competition Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jaguar C-Type once raced by Juan Manuel Fangio claimed victory in the 1949-1954 at this year\u2019s Le Mans Legend driven by John Young, posting the car\u2019s 22nd vintage race win from 25 starts. 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