Jaguar XJR-17

The Jaguar XJR-17 was an IMSA Lights racing car built by Tom Walkinshaw Racing, rebuilt from a Jaguar XJR-16 for the IMSA Camel Lights category. Because of funding issues it never competed in that series and has since been used only in a few minor British events and historic races. It used a modified version of the XJR-16's 3.5-litre V6 engine, stripped of its twin turbochargers and producing a claimed 450 horsepower, while its bodywork was cobbled together from parts of older Jaguar XJR sportscars: the front wing from the XJR-14, the rear wing from an XJR-9, and a gearbox casing mixing XJR-11 tunnels with the XJR-16 bellhousing. David Fullerton designed it, and a planned Group C2 entry at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans also failed for lack of funding. Brian Chatfield ran it at Castle Combe in 1993 and 1994 and John Grant raced it from 2003 to 2004.