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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jaguar Racing
Jaguar Racing was a Formula One team that competed in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship from 2000 to 2004.
Ironically, in Jaguar's final season, the team received the most publicity when two of the team's mechanics, having won an inflatable donkey from the movie Shrek from a giveaway on a soda bottle, photographed it around the paddock at several races and set up a website (donkeydoesf1.co.uk) for the pictures.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jaguar-Racing   (2133 words)

  
 Media.Ford.com: Jaguar Racing
Jaguar Racing drivers Mark Webber (28) and Christian Klien (21) made clean starts in today’s last race of the season and were in 9th and 7th place respectively by lap 4.
Jaguar Racing’s first practice session this morning was curtailed to just twenty minutes after stray dogs were found to be within the confines of the track and all running was halted for safety reasons.
Jaguar Racing drivers, Mark Webber (28) and Christian Klien (21) both made the most of this morning’s practice session, preparing their tyres and working on balance and set-up ahead of this afternoon’s qualifying session.
media.ford.com /racing/jaguar_racing.cfm   (1575 words)

  
  Jaguar (car) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jaguar Cars is a British-founded subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company famous for its luxury saloon and sports cars.
Jaguar also owns the Daimler car company (not to be confused with Daimler-Benz), which it bought in 1960 from Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA).
The famous race was then left for many years, until in the mid-1980s Tom Walkinshaw's TWR team started designing and preparing Jaguar V12-engined sports prototypes for European sports car races.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaguar_(car)   (1467 words)

  
 Jaguar Racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jaguar Racing was a Formula One team that competed in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship from 2000 to 2004.
The new team is named Red Bull Racing, using the chassis and engine that would have been Jaguar's 2005 Formula 1 challenger.
Ironically, in Jaguar's final season, the team received the most publicity when two of the team's mechanics, having won an inflatable donkey from the movie Shrek from a giveaway on a soda bottle, photographed it around the paddock at several races and set up a website (donkeydoesf1.co.uk) for the pictures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaguar_Racing   (675 words)

  
 JAGUAR RACING R4 PRESS PACK - INTRODUCTION
Jaguar Racing’s new structure is in fact a radical revamp.
Jaguar Racing’s Milton Keynes factory is being updated all the time, as is the team’s wind tunnel at nearby Bicester.
With the assistance of Pi Research (part of the Premier Performance Division, alongside Jaguar Racing and Cosworth Racing), the control systems within the tunnel are state-of-the-art, while the rolling road itself and various other ancillary facilities connected to its operation will be updated steadily throughout 2003 and beyond.
media.ford.com /print_doc.cfm?article_id=14202   (1523 words)

  
 Racing Green Cars - Jaguar and TVR specialists for South East England
Racing Green Cars is dedicated to the support and enjoyment of Jaguar cars, both modern and classic.
Racing Green Cars specialises in modifying Jaguars and can offer numerous upgrades for the modern range of Jaguars and is expanding its range of upgrades available for the classic Jaguars.
Racing Green Cars is staffed by enthusiasts with great knowledge and enthusiasm for the Jaguar marque and many of our engineers have raced and have vast practical experience and understanding of these cars.
www.racinggreencars.com /about.asp   (383 words)

  
 AutoWorld.com - Jaguar Announces New F1 Car   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Jackie Stewart, Chairman of Jaguar Racing said: "The birth of a new Formula One team is always an emotional event and I am proud to be associated, once again, with a marque I drove in the early stages of my career and a marque which has such a distinguished and successful racing heritage.
Jaguar has an ambitious and progressive management team and over the past few months it has been a great pleasure to work with them as we prepared for the new season.
Jaguar Racing's Chief Operating Officer Paul Stewart described the Jaguar R1 as a new and logical development of last season's car.
www.autoworld.com /news/jaguar/2000jaguar_f1.asp   (1062 words)

  
 pioneer announces technical partnership with jaguar racing team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Jaguar Racing enters its fourth Formula One season in 2003 with 80 years of racing experience.
For the 2003 racing season, Pioneer is supporting Mo Nunn Racing and Team Rahal in the Indy Racing League as well as Jaguar Racing in Formula One.
Jaguar Racing hopes to create benefits that will lead to good business to business opportunities during the period of the relationship," said Sir Jackie Stewart, non-executive director, Jaguar Racing.
www.pioneerelectronics.com /Pioneer/CDA/CarRacing/RacingNewsDetails/0,3397,92840,00.html   (434 words)

  
 Ford Racing: Team Ford Racing News
Jaguar Racing drivers Mark Webber and Christian Klien made clean starts in today’s last race of the season and were in ninth and seventh place respectively by lap 4.
The 2004 season is the last for the team as Jaguar Racing as they retire from the sport after five years.
Jaguar has a magnificent motorsport heritage and one that deserves to live on as there is no doubt that racing and winning are and should be synonymous with Jaguar.”
www.fordracing.com /news/detail/?article=26715   (1206 words)

  
 MALCOLM OASTLER RETIRES FROM JAQuAR MOTORSPORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Malcolm joined Jaguar Racing in 2002 as a consultant on the 2003 racing car, Jaguar R4, and has since played a critical role in the development and rollout of this year’s challenger, Jaguar R5.
Jaguar Racing’s Managing Director, David Pitchforth, commented: “We are sad to see Malcolm leave given his valuable input to our programme and wish him the very best for the future.
We had agreed from the onset with Malcolm that his tenure with Jaguar Racing would be relatively short-term and focused upon what were critical short-term objectives aimed at ensuring the competitiveness of the Jaguar R4 and R5,” continued Pitchforth.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2004/03/30/187118.html   (866 words)

  
 Formula for success - smh.com.au
He's aware that the high regard in which he is held in many garages along pit lane doesn't necessarily extend to the boss of one or two prominent teams.
Though he has been a formula one racer for just a year, part of Webber's appeal to Jaguar is his ability to finely analyse the behaviour of his machine.
His technical feedback during a Jaguar test in the middle of last season helped convince the now sacked Jaguar Racing chief Niki Lauda he should sign the Australian for this year.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/01/1046407802549.html   (790 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Jaguar quits Formula One
Jaguar's F1 businesses are now up for sale, and the future of the Ford rally team remains uncertain.
Jaguar's announcement came as Ford announcedit was ending production at its Jaguar plant in Coventry, with the loss of around 1,000 jobs.
Jaguar are a lowly seventh in the constructors' championship with 10 points.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/3665810.stm   (530 words)

  
 Feature Article - Jaguar Racing: In Fast Company - 06/00
Jaguar is, of course, owned by Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. So as part of our on-going mission to provide you with looks at things that go fast, here’s a look at some aspects of this racing team.
Hewlett-Packard is a “major partner” of Jaguar Racing; not surprisingly, its computers are used exclusively throughout the firm.
Jackie Stewart, original but retired chairman and CEO of Jaguar Racing (September 1999 to January 2000), goes way back with Jaguar: an older brother was a member of the Jaguar works team in 1955.
www.autofieldguide.com /articles/060002.html   (1059 words)

  
 Save The Jaguar
This is not good for the Jaguar and is definitely not good for the essentially subsistent farmers, their families or their livestock.
Jaguar has taken the lead in helping to minimize this problem by setting up a fund to purchase land that abuts the preserve, and, now comes my challenge to you.
The Jaguars Owners Club of Oregon has a has a provision in its bylaws which states that one of the purposes of the club is to "provide funds to worthy causes".
www.joco.org /savethejaguar   (871 words)

  
 SCX Jaguar - Home Racing World
Jaguar has a long history of car-building and racing success, but their current Formula One program is relatively young, dating back to the 2000 season when Jaguar took over what had been the Stewart F-1 team.
The outline of Jaguar’s famous “leaping cat” graces the sides of the engine cover, just behind the driver, along with the barge boards just behind the front wheels, and numerous other sponsors are scattered around the rest of the car.
The exact locations of some sponsor markings can change from race to race, but compared to photos of the real Jaguar R-4 I would say that SCX got all the major ones correct.
www.homeracingworld.com /scxjag.htm   (1505 words)

  
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It is the first time Cosworth has raced with a 90-degree engine layout and the key benefit as opposed to a 72-degree engine is improving the centre of gravity.
The Jaguar R4 was straight-line tested last week Friday at Ford Motor Company's proving ground in Lommel, Belgium and will today run for the first time on a Grand Prix circuit at the Circuit de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain).
Jaguar Racing would finally like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to its loyal and steadfast sponsors, HSBC, AT&T, Beck's, EDS, Michelin, DuPont, Castro, HP and all our suppliers who have remained with us through difficult times and who are supporting us as we go forward into the new season.
www.emailwire.com /news/aut3348.shtml   (730 words)

  
 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Jaguar launch was unique in that it took place entirely on the Internet, with streaming video footage of the car and interviews with drivers and team officials, and still photos.
Jaguar Racing’s new drivers, Australian Mark Webber and Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia, will campaign the new Jaguar-Cosworth R4 in this year’s 16-race FIA Formula One World Championship that includes the fourth annual United States Grand Prix on Sept. 28 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
It is the first time Cosworth has raced with a 90-degree engine layout, and the key benefit as opposed to a 72-degree engine is improving the center of gravity.
www.brickyard.com /news/story.php?story_id=832   (1164 words)

  
 X-Type racing Concept
These 18-inch race alloys are similar to the ones the team used on its XKR during February's Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race when Gentilozzi won his GTS class.
During the Racing Concept's appearance at the SEMA show, special video units mounted inside the car will project footage of Jaguar's racing heritage on to the inside of the windshield.
It is the intention of Rocketsports Racing to engineer this car into a driveable test car in 2003 sourcing appropriate components from the after market.
www.jaguarracing.wz.cz /Racingcars/x-type.htm   (657 words)

  
 Lot Details
The Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team was created in time to contest the World Championship racing series of the year 2000.
Consequently it was amidst a blaze of global publicity that the first-ever works Jaguar Formula 1 cars emerged for the opening race of that new series in Melbourne, Australia, on March 12, 2000.
In his hands it achieved Jaguar Racing’s best-ever finish that season by taking the chequered flag in sixth position — scoring a World Championship point — in the year’s final event, the Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang circuit on October 22.
www.bonhams.com /cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=2734565&iSaleNo=14   (431 words)

  
 Racerchicks.com: Motorsport Commentary - Jaguar Racing Launches 2002 F1 Challenger and Announces Technical Partnership ...
Castrol is increasing its involvement in Formula One by becoming partner to Jaguar Racing in an agreement that includes the supply of engine oil, transmission fluids as well as dedicated technical support to the team at races and tests.
The partnership with Jaguar Racing forms part of a wider business co-operation deal between Castrol and the Premier Automotive Group (the Ford Motor Company business group responsible for Jaguar, Aston Martin, Volvo, Land Rover and Lincoln).
The Jaguar R3 is planned to run for the first time at the Circuit de Cataluyna in Barcelona on Tuesday 8th January 2002.
www.racerchicks.com /motor/jagnew.html   (942 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ racing with European Motorsport - Historic Saloon Cars
To comply with the regs, each Jaguar has to be kitted out with full roll cages, racing seats and full harnesses, fire extinguisher systems and plenty more.
Races take place not only in the UK but also across Europe (France, Belgium, Holland) and are organised by the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club.
New to the team for 2005 was a race prepared XJ40 Saloon, and it is this car that Howard Kirkham will be running for a second year..
www.oldclassiccar.co.uk /jaguar_xj_racing.htm   (462 words)

  
 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
In these surveys, Jaguar was ahead of BMW, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz and the people at Ford knew that there were brilliant new designs in the pipeline.
The R4 is the best car that Jaguar has produced thus far, but there were problems, not least the team's apparent inability to prepare two cars to the same standard.
Despite some outstanding qualifying performances by Webber, the Australian's races usually ended in heartache as the R4 suffered a number of technical problems, not least with the fuel pick-up, which resulted in the cars having to run with heavy fuel loads from the outset seriously compromising performance.
www.pitpass.com /src/teams/jaguar.php   (1377 words)

  
 AAP - Atari Faq
In addition, new Jaguar CD games are likely to be deveoloped because Songbird Productions is developing a cart bypass system to allow development of Jaguar cd games (see topic #9 What is the problem with making new Jaguar games).
Some say the Jaguar should be considered a 32-bit system, as that is the maximum register size in the programmable processors (the 68000, the graphics processor, and the DMA sound processor).
The Jaguar may not be the newest, or the most advanced system anymore, but all things considered it's still one of the best.
www.ljosephart.com /aap/faq.asp   (2434 words)

  
 Jaguar Racing
His racing portfolio also includes a win in the GTO class at the Daytona 24-hour race, and a Formula 1 test with Arrows in 1993.
In 10 years of competition, Stewart Racing’s record is unsurpassed in junior formulae: 13 championships in both Formula Three and Formula Opel, over 137 race wins, and 312 podium finishes.
Jaguar Racing's Technical Director has been in the top flight of motor racing since the tender age of 21, soon after graduating from Coleraine Technical College in his native Ireland.
www.atlasf1.com /news/2000/features/launch/jaguar.html   (547 words)

  
 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Jaguar owners Ford have announced plans to withdraw from Formula One racing at the end of the 2004 season.
The Jaguar Racing team, along with engine manufacturers Cosworth, have been put up for sale by the American car giant.
Jaguar came into the sport in 2000 after taking over the Stewart team.
www.formula1.com /news/2225.html   (257 words)

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