Le Mans ’53, A Second for Jaguar

As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, but no one anticipated the power of the new Dunlop disc brakes on the Jaguar C-Type. In the end, the Jaguar pairing of Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt took Jaguar’s second Le Mans victory in three years, with the team car of Stirling Moss and Peter Walker rolling home in 2nd place in a race where all the class records were broken and the first four finishers cracked the 4000-kilometer barrier for the first time.

With a passion for both racing cars and art since childhood, Swiss artist Fabrice Lachavanne paints in acrylics, depicting racing cars in actual competition situations during the period 1920-1970.  He pays particular attention to detail in his work, and the frame of each original painting is handmade by the artist from exotic wood and burnished steel, with a discreet engraving of his signature visible on the lower part of the burnished frame.