The Jaguar XJR-7 is a
IMSA GTP
IMSA GT classes are former classifications of sports prototypes in sports car racing competing in the IMSA GT Championship. The classes were used at different, overlapping times during the period from 1971 to 1998, over which the championship ran.
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sports prototype
A sports prototype, sometimes referred to simply as a prototype, is a type of Auto racing, race car that is used in high-level categories of sports car racing. They are purpose-built auto-sports race cars, as opposed to production-car based or s ...
race car, designed, developed, and built by
Group 44, for Jaguar with the aim of competing, from 1985, in the
IMSA GT Championship
IMSA GT was a sports car racing series organized by International Motor Sports Association. Races took place primarily in the United States and occasionally in Canada.
History
The series was founded in 1969 by John and Peggy Bishop, and Bill ...
. Jaguar XJR-7s contested until 1988, before Jaguar replaced it with the
Jaguar XJR-9
The Jaguar XJR-9 is a sports-prototype race car built by Jaguar (car), Jaguar for both FIA Group C and International Motor Sports Association, IMSA IMSA GT Championship, Camel GTP racing. In 1988, Jaguar's XJR-9 won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, aft ...
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Wins/Victories
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1986 3 Hours of Daytona
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1987 500 km of Riverside
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1987 West Palm Beach 3 Hours
Drivers
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Claude Ballot-Lena
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Whitney Ganz
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Hurley Haywood
Harris Hurley Haywood (born May 4, 1948) is an American former race car driver. Haywood has won multiple events, including five overall victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, three at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and two at the 12 Hours of Sebring and ...
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John Morton
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Brian Redman
Brian Herman Thomas Redman (born 9 March 1937) is a British retired racing driver.
Racing for Carl Haas and Jim Hall's Chaparral Cars, Brian Redman won the 1974, '75 and '76 SCCA Formula 5000 series and has raced in nearly every category of ...
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Chip Robinson
Chip Robinson (born March 29, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired race car driver. He won the 1987 IMSA Camel GT series championship and the 1987 24 Hours of Daytona (with Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. in a Porsche and ...
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Vern Schuppan
Vernon John Schuppan (born 19 March 1943) is an Australian former motor racing driver. Schuppan drove in various categories, participating in Formula One, the Indianapolis 500 and most successfully in sports car racing.
Although he considers ...
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Bob Tullius
Robert Charles Tullius was born 7 December 1930 in Rochester, New York. He is best known as a race car driver and racing team owner.
Early years
Tullius considered a career in teaching after graduating from high school. He served a term in the U ...
See also
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Jaguar XJR Sportscars
The Jaguar XJR sportscars were a series of race cars used by Jaguar-backed teams in both the World Sportscar Championship (WSC) Group C and the IMSA Camel GTP series between 1984 and 1993.
History
Starting in 1983, the project was started by a ...
References
External links
XJR-5
IMSA GTP cars
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
24 Hours of Le Mans race cars
Sports prototypes
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