{"id":499146,"date":"2021-01-18T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=114943"},"modified":"2024-03-18T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:58:37","slug":"ecurie-ecosse-to-build-seven-legacy-c-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ecurie-ecosse-to-build-seven-legacy-c-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecurie Ecosse C-Type Reimagined"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1952, a young Ian Stewart, pioneer driver for Ecurie Ecosse, would visit Jaguar Cars in Coventry to collect his brand-new C-type. He would drive the car to its first race on Jersey to confront stiff competition from Aston Martin and Frazer Nash. The race was won at a gallop and in doing so he opened the first chapter in Ecurie Ecosse\u2019s international motor racing career.<\/p>\n

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Considerable success on the racetrack ensued for Ecurie Ecosse, their trophy cabinet bursting at the seams with 59 podium places secured across the seven C-type chassis raced by the team. Through clever tuning by legendary team manager \u2018Wilkie\u2019 Wilkinson and meticulous planning by founder David Murray, they proved how capable the Jaguar C-type could be on the international stage and began a legacy that would take the Scottish national team to countless wins, including their crowning glory at La Sarthe.<\/p>\n

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The Jaguar C-type was a technological masterpiece. The first race car honed in the wind tunnel, first to use fuel \u2018bag\u2019 tanks (a technology borrowed from the aviation world) and the test bed for Dunlop\u2019s revolutionary disc brakes. A steel spaceframe chassis formed the rigid backbone of these cars, clad in a lightweight, thin-gauge, streamlined aluminium body designed by Malcolm Sayer and powered by a silky smooth Jaguar \u2018overhead cam\u2019 straight-six engine. Stirling Moss once said: \u201cI always really rated the C-type \u2013 for me it was a far better car than the D.\u201d<\/p>\n