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Sending off 2024 with a bang, from Jaguar XJ220 racing to Sherman tanks<\/p>\n

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Have you ever seen footage of a Jaguar XJ220<\/a> racing series? I recommend it if you haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Called Fast Masters, it was run in 1993 in the US as a way of building the Jaguar<\/a> brand there \u2013 and, helpfully, it occupied some of Jaguar\u2019s supercars<\/a>, which after the recession of the early 1990s weren\u2019t exactly leaping out of showrooms.<\/p>\n

(Some people who ordered them, finding themselves suddenly cash-strapped, walked away from their deposits rather than buy the finished article.)<\/p>\n

Jaguar and broadcaster ESPN attracted mostly retired big-name drivers in the US and invited them to race in this one-make series. The XJ220 wasn\u2019t designed as a race car<\/a> and didn\u2019t seem to become much less of a handful when race-prepped.<\/p>\n

The series was nicknamed Crash Masters and remains a great watch.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0remained a single-line entry in my notes app throughout 2024, worthy of mention in a column but apparently not so worthy that I could big it up to 700 words of its own, so it sat there neglected.<\/p>\n

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But, as ever, I\u2019m keen to empty my notes for the new year, so here it is. See also a single-line entry: \u2018Paula Radcliffe Way\u2019, which is a bypass near Bedford named\u00a0to celebrate the area\u2019s famous world-champion runner.<\/p>\n

Amazing to have something named after you, I\u2019d have thought, notably when you\u2019re alive and can still enjoy it. Most things named after people only get so once they\u2019ve died.<\/p>\n

But I wonder: how does any celebrity in question feel about it if it\u2019s scruffy or neglected, as is likelier with a road than, say, a bridge or a race-track corner or a stadium? Would you feel hurt to see it strewn with fast-food packaging? Would you organise a litter pick?<\/p>\n

Do you hate being contacted by phone but feel okay about texting or meeting in person? I\u2019m told this is a thing that affects young people more and is looked down on. But I wonder: is it actually reverting to humans\u2019 natural type?<\/p>\n

Once\u00a0we could signal from afar or send written messages or meet in person, but the idea of meeting sort-of in person while still miles away from each other was an impossibility.<\/p>\n

Maybe phone calls or online meetings are now being shunned because actually they feel unnatural? Anyway, I couldn\u2019t find a fit with cars, so I\u00a0didn\u2019t manage to put this into a column.<\/p>\n

One notepad entry for which I did think of a car angle still needs more research. When Ineos<\/a> boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe took a stake in Manchester United FC, it was reported that he called people back into the office because fewer emails were sent on Fridays, when people worked at home.<\/p>\n

That stat may be true, but it\u2019s incredibly simplistic if it happened as reported. It\u2019s\u00a0possible that I write fewer emails when\u00a0I\u2019m not in the office, but it will be because\u00a0I have several thousand words to write and people tapping me on the shoulder every 20 minutes isn\u2019t conducive to productivity.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve thought \u2013 and this is why I need to bury my head in some stats \u2013 about how it relates to smart motorways. Some proponents of them say they\u2019re the safest stretches of road in the country, despite how badly the public feels about them.<\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t say is how safe those stretches were beforehand and whether accident rates have gone up or down since.<\/p>\n

Smart motorways were designed to ease congestion, so it stands to reason that they were first introduced on the busiest (and therefore the slowest and probably safest per passenger mile) bits of road. I will revisit this one, so it will stay in my notes app.<\/p>\n

On stats: the Sherman tank. Some media outlets think it\u2019s a winning argument to say pick-up trucks are a similar size to a Sherman. It\u2019s not a winner. Truth is the Sherman was an incredibly compact tank, at just 5.8m long.<\/p>\n

The contemporary Churchill tank was 7.4m long and the modern Challenger tank is over 11m long. While the Sherman could and did carry quite a lot, you couldn\u2019t put a pallet in the back of one. Cars are now too big, yes, but this is a silly stat.<\/p>\n

And with my notes largely clear, I feel better about stepping into 2025. Happy new year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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