7 Changing of the guard

Lancia had been an occasional thorn in Porsche’s side, but the German firm had nonetheless swept aside all before it in Group C. That changed when the TWR Jaguars arrived, and their first win came in the 1986 Silverstone 1000km. The XJR-6 of Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever took victory after an entertaining battle with the Lancia of Andrea de Cesaris and Alessandro Nannini until the LC2 retired. The second-placed Porsche of Derek Bell and Hans Stuck was two laps down. Anorak fact After a long delay in the pits, de Cesaris went back out and broke the lap record by a staggering two seconds with a new best of 1 min 13.95 secs