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Jaguar TCS Racing

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Jaguar TCS Racing is the current identity of Jaguar Land Rover's Formula E racing programme, named after its title sponsor TCS (Tata Consultancy Services). The team won the 2023–24 Formula E World Teams' Championship and holds the record for the most race wins in Formula E history, surpassing 24 victories at the 2026 Jeddah E-Prix. The Jaguar brand's motorsport heritage stretches back to celebrated sportscar campaigns of the 1980s and includes a high-profile but troubled five-year stint in Formula One from 2000 to 2004.

Jaguar announced its return to motorsport in December 2015, committing to Formula E and building its own chassis and powertrain. Panasonic became the team's lead sponsor. The team debuted in the 2016–17 season, replacing the defunct Trulli GP, with Adam Carroll and Mitch Evans as drivers. The first season yielded a tenth-place finish in the Teams' Championship, but Evans emerged as the cornerstone of the team's future success.

For the 2017–18 season Jaguar signed Nelson Piquet Jr., the series' inaugural Drivers' Champion, to partner Evans. At the ZΓΌrich ePrix, Evans claimed the team's maiden pole position, and the team finished sixth in the Teams' Championship.

The 2018–19 season brought the first outright win. After Piquet was replaced mid-season by Alex Lynn, Evans won in Rome, with the car subsequently sent to the FIA for compliance checks on a wishbone element. No issues were found and the result stood. Evans finished fifth in the Drivers' Championship with 105 points and was the only driver to physically complete every race of the season.

James Calado joined Evans for the 2019–20 season. At the Mexico City ePrix, Evans gave Jaguar their second Formula E win. The campaign yielded 81 points and another seventh in the Teams' Championship.

The team signed Sam Bird as Evans's new teammate for the 2020–21 season. Bird won in Diriyah, and the team finished second in the Teams' Championship with 177 points β€” their most successful season to date β€” having led the Teams' standings on two separate occasions. In November 2021, the team rebranded as Jaguar TCS Racing. Evans secured a double victory in Rome at the 2021–22 Jakarta ePrix. From the 2022–23 season Jaguar also became powertrain suppliers for the customer team Envision Racing.

The 2022–23 Gen3 debut season ended narrowly short: Jaguar-powered cars lost the Teams' Championship to Envision Racing by 12 points, with Evans third in the Drivers' Championship. Nick Cassidy replaced Bird for the 2023–24 campaign alongside Evans, and the team delivered their finest season. Wins from both drivers placed Jaguar in contention for all three available titles at the final London round. They secured the Teams' Championship and, together with Envision, the manufacturers' trophy, though a puncture for Cassidy and a missed attack mode activation by Evans cost the Drivers' title to Pascal Wehrlein, with Evans and Cassidy finishing second and third respectively.

Ford acquired Jackie Stewart's Stewart Grand Prix team in 1999 and renamed it Jaguar Racing for the 2000 Formula One season. The team was based in Milton Keynes. Over five seasons Jaguar finished as high as seventh in the Constructors' Championship three consecutive times (2002–2004), but the programme was beset by management instability and under-delivery relative to the resources committed.

Eddie Irvine scored all four points in 2000, including a fourth-place finish at Monaco. In 2001 Irvine took the team's only Formula One podium at Monaco, finishing third. A succession of team principals β€” Bobby Rahal, Niki Lauda, and Tony Purnell β€” failed to arrest the slide. Mark Webber drove the team's final two seasons, finishing seventh in the championship in 2003 with 18 points. Motor Sport later called Jaguar "one of the most high-profile failures in F1," citing a "revolving door of management." Ford sold the team to Red Bull at the end of 2004 for Β£1, and it was renamed Red Bull Racing.

A notable footnote from the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix: the team embedded a $300,000 diamond in each car's nose cone to promote the film Ocean's Twelve. Christian Klien crashed on the first lap, and the diamond from his car was never recovered.

Jaguar's most celebrated racing history was in sportscar competition during the late 1980s and early 1990s, run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing under the Silk Cut Jaguar banner. The programme won the World Sportscar Championship in 1987 with the XJR-8, in 1988 with the XJR-9, and in 1991 with the XJR-14 and XJR-12. The 24 Hours of Le Mans fell to Jaguar in 1988 with the XJR-9 and again in 1990 with the XJR-12. Jaguar also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1988 and 1990. These results established Jaguar as one of the dominant forces in Group C endurance racing.

For the 2018–19 Formula E season, Jaguar launched the I-PACE eTROPHY as a support series, offering an arrive-and-drive format for up to 20 drivers per event. The series was cancelled after the 2019–20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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