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The CTCRC Jaguar Challenge finale at Donington Park on 22nd & 23rd October finished in much the same way as the season started for Swallows. Tom winning in the XJR6, Jack excelling well beyond expectation and Steve, Damian and Andrew all pulling out wonderful performances in their respective classes. Tom had already secured the championship at the previous round at Snetterton so could look forward to a less pressured weekend. Qualifying on Saturday with two races scheduled for Sunday, Tom turned on the style out qualifying his nearest rival by over…

. Nearly twelve months ago we sat down with our friends at the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club to map out a plan for the future of JEC track days under the new ‘banner’ of JEC TrackSport. Yesterday’s track day at our ‘home’ circuit Castle Combe, was the season culmination of a year building JEC TrackSport in partnership with the club. Along with the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, Swallows have worked to bring many exciting elements to the track days that add huge value. Our fleet of track cars rolled into Castle Combe…

One thing motorsport teaches you is to never count your chickens. So, although Tom went into the race weekend at Snetterton Park with a healthy twenty-three-point lead over his nearest rival, there were twenty-eight points up for grabs, so nothing taken for granted in terms of securing the championship. With work still to be done and a five-hundred-mile round trip the race truck was loaded with Tom’s XJR6, Matthew’s XJR6 (to be driven by Jack) Steve’s XKR and Andrew’s XJ40 for the pre-dawn early departure on Friday. The weather has not…

What a week it has been for the Swallows Racing team. Whilst not out racing ourselves we were supporting the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club with a display of race and track focused cars at Silverstone Classic weekend. This entailed preparing the cars and getting them loaded on the race transporter (which formed a backdrop to the display) on Wednesday, before heading off at the crack of dawn on Thursday to help the JEC team set up. On board the truck, Tom’s XJR6 race car, our new project the SCV8 X Type, Andy…

Round 7 & 8 of the CTCRC Berkshire Jag Components Championship took place at a roasting hot Thruxton over 9th & 10th July. With seven cars again under the Swallows wing for the weekend our race techs Dan & Ben were constantly busy. Our pre-race prep proved to be key with all seven cars completing the weekend with very few issues. With several new upgrades to Tom’s XJR6 for the weekend we were keen and slightly nervous to see how this would affect the car. Electric power steering (after the hydraulic…

There can’t be many finer motorsport settings than Harwood Hillclimb near Leeds on a sunny day late in June. With some spectacular views across the Wharfe Valley and picnic packed, Swallows Racing were once again pleased to be supporting the JEC TrackSport with their hillclimb event. Over eighty Jaguar Enthusiasts took to the hill, in cars ranging from 1948 to the present day and from the XK120 to the I-Pace. With no less than three C-Type recreations and XK’s strongly represented with model variants from early XK120’s through to late XK150’s.…

We were recently honoured to be invited to give a talk to Warwickshire – Coventry & Hinckley, JEC Region at the Jaguar Sports & Social Club at Browns Lane. Going to the ‘home’ of Jaguar adds a degree of pressure, then in addition members of the region are past Jaguar employees adds another level. Brian Reid who for over thirty has been a leading committee member of the region gives his report on Tom’s talk. The last meeting hosted Swallows Racing. Tom our speaker, started racing an XJR Supercharged X300 model…

Bolstered by our early season success, the Swallows Racing truck headed north on Thursday afternoon, ready for practice on Friday, ahead of the Saturday May 28th CTCRC/BARC Round 5 & 6 double header. With no fewer than seven cars under our wing for the weekend, base camp was established in the middle of the Oulton Park paddock. It wasn’t long before our chef Colin was serving up ten portions of chicken curry for the team accompanied by poppadom’s and nan bread washed down with a bottle of Cobra beer. After a…

A packed-out sunny Brands Hatch on Easter weekend saw the Swallows Racing team again out in force with the BARC run CTCRC Berkshire Jags Challenge. Tom & Jack were driving their Class D XJR6 and Class A XJ40 and we were again running another XJ40 for Damian Gray a XJS for Tom Butterfield as well as supporting the XKR of Steve Dowell from PVE. Arriving early in the morning on Good Friday it gave us an opportunity to set up camp around the race truck and do some car preparation. With…