Mt Panorama Bathurst 1985 TWR Jaguar XJ-S V12 Qualifying Lap 

This is the most underrated video EVER. A magnificent driver complementing a magnificent piece of engineering perfection.

I know this is only qualifying but this was an era when the 1000 was a 1000km race, not a series of pace car controlled super sprints.

I was in the pits at Bathurst that year and the two Jags were BY FAR the loudest cars on the track. You'd be watching the TV and see them coming down Conrod and then into ;pit lane and then you'd get the roar from the actual car. RIP Tom.

The fact a jaguar was able to drive that far without breaking down is impressive.

The sound of the V12... Don't know how many times I've watched this video over the years.

Aaaahh the Symphony of Cylinders

I remember it well as a flag marshal positioned on Conrod Straight. It was awesome at the time because we had never heard anything like that screaming V12 sound before. If that wasn't good enough, the month later we went to Adelaide for the first F1 G.P there and the star of the noise there were the V12 Ferrari's. A sound that would wake the dead.

This was at a time when the car’s and drivers were far more interesting than today’s crap.

Ah yes. The RU-vid algorithm strikes again 14 years later! What a noise again though!!!!

Sensational sounding engine... like F1 we have destroyed true racing...

no aero aids and 270+ kmh over the humps on the old Conrod Straight, the cars without any aero aids would get airborne over the last hump, balls of steel

Watched this race when I was a kid, sat on the floor of my grand parents house in Docaster. All these years later I have a British racing green XJ-S in my garage because of the race in 85. Unforgettable.

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Mike Raymond saying Walkinshaw wrong and Moffat calling him an Englishman are the only things wrong with this beautiful clip. Watched it live when I was younger.

Incredible driving and more....

This is real racing era, not what we have now.

This is hands down the most amazing motorsport video of all time. Anyone who knows a bit about racing can try to appreciate what's at stake in that lap.

Seeing a racing XJ-S is like seeing a man in a tuxedo fighting in a boxing match.

I revisit this every couple of months, it's one of the greatest laps anyone's ever put down on the Mountain. Absolutely balls-to-the-wall, and about as fast as the proddies are running today, which is impressive given the giant leaps cars have made in the last 40 years and how brutal Mt. Panorama is at race pace.

Whether you like the guy or not didn't that V12 sound awesome! What a car. I remember this race as a kid and i always liked the XJR's after seeing them at Bathurst.