Lister Jaguar Monza

This car competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's the Lister Jaguar Monza of Rod Jolley, a car that was built in 1958 to compete in the Race of Two Worlds which pitted American Indianapolis cars against European cars on Monza's banked oval track. The race had been held in 1957 when the European cars, including Ecurie Ecosse D-Type Jaguars were soundly beaten so the following year Ecurie Ecosse built this single seater car based on a Lister chassis with a 3.8 litre Jaguar engine. The race was still dominated by the American team though. Construction of the Lister Jaguar was actually completed in the paddock at Monza and it ran in the unpainted finish seen here. For a time in the 1990s though it was painted in Ecurie Ecosse blue, and on 30 April 2016 I showed a photograph of the car as it appeared at Silverstone in 1999.