Palmer Jaguar JP1 TS: L-plates not included
One of only a few two-seat Challengers built, this corporate-day stalwart is ready to schmooze again, says Simon de Burton
Share the experience in this track-spec two-seater, which even comes with a trailer
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There can be few people who know more about track days than motor sport impresario Jonathan Palmer, so the fact that he was central to the design of this Jaguar-powered two-seater suggests that whoever buys it can be confident it’s ‘fit for purpose’.
Originally conceived as a track weapon capable of giving visitors to Palmer’s Bedford Autodrome a slight flavour of what it’s like to drive an LMP car, it was inspired by the Zeus Challenger. Original Challengers, produced in Oxfordshire by Zeus Motorsport Engineering, were single-seaters powered by 2-litre Toyota four-cylinder engines but Palmer wanted to create a small ‘fleet’ of two-seaters that could accommodate a driver and an instructor during the popular corporate track day events for which his company became famous.
In the style of celebrated Remington boss Victor Kiam, he bought Zeus and, using modifications penned by the PalmerSport engineers, had Zeus designer Peter Sneller build a run of wider, space-frame chassis into which were fitted Jaguar Racing Cosworth