Tag: swallows racing
Our annual track day at Castle Combe with our partners the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club is always a highlight of our calendar. With persistent rain leading up to 15th October we anxiously checked the BBC weather site and pleasingly Tuesday looked fair, however for Gary and the team setting up the evening before it was pretty wet. […]
A combination of a heavy workload and Friday traffic chaos meant a late evening arrival at Thruxton in Hampshire for the most ‘local’ round of the JEC Racing Saloon & GT Championship. With the gearbox finally sorted on Tom’s XJR after syncro issues at Anglesey, the mood in the Swallows camp was quietly optimistic. After […]
Choose a short blast or book the whole day, either way this is a great place to stretch your cats legs in controlled conditions with other like minded individuals. The days aim is to allow owners on all budgets to attend without tying you down for a whole day. Packages start from 3 sessions of […]
Sadly, it’s been far too long since Jaguar last raced at the Le Mans 24 hour and with little prospect of that changing, we decided we needed an excuse to go. With the regulation changes coming in 2020 we felt 2019 was the year to go and wave the Swallows flag, literally. Jaguar may not […]
A sneaky peak into our development workshop. Soon to be available from Swallows Racing for the Jaguar XK8 / XKR these new improved strut bars with added gussets for additional stability, they will come in a powder coated finish for longevity. Why adding braces is a good idea? When you corner, the whole car’s chassis […]
Six long weeks after the disappointment of Oulton Park we were back on track this weekend at Anglesey, a new circuit for us, and a 260-mile trek north on Thursday afternoon ready for a full day testing on Friday. With a rebuilt gearbox and differential plus a new clutch we were optimistic that Tom’s XJR […]
Silverstone, the home of British motorsport, going to race there always brings added excitement and anticipation, after all this where our heroes have raced and fought to become champions, it is steeped in history. The International circuit was the venue for rounds 3 & 4 of the Jaguar Enthusiasts club GT and saloon car championship. […]
With no time to draw breath after our highly successful Open Day on Saturday 30th March, we set the Sat Nav’s for Snetterton in Norfolk and the JEC Saloon & GT Championship season curtain raiser. After a long drive from Somerset and arriving at gone midnight we grabbed some much-needed shut eye. The break of dawn […]
Our first track day of the year at Brands Hatch and spring arrived early … On 22nd February we had a rude awaking with a 4.00am alarm call to get us to a misty Brands Hatch in Kent for the first Jaguar Enthusiast Club track day of the year. With the 8.30am drivers briefing completed and […]
Swallows Racing performance high flow stainless cats open up the most restrictive part of the exhaust system meaning that you get a significant boost in performance and a more raw engine note. When coupled with a remap will see a 25bhp increase in performance.
