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PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES, HARRY KENNEY HERBERT, ADRIAN SMITH & GORDON GILL ARCHIVE<br />
THE JAGUAR CLUB FOR<br />
DISTINGUISHED FAST GENTLEMEN<br />
The best racing car is only as good as its driver. Some of the<br />
greatest drivers who have ever lived cut their teeth driving Jaguars<br />
on and off the track. Mike Hawthorn’s courageous but inspired<br />
drives at the wheel of his Jaguar D-Type in the fifties are the stuff<br />
of schoolboy legend. In our new series “The Jaguar Club for<br />
Distinguished Fast Gentlemen”, award-winning documentary film<br />
writer Manish Pandey pens an incisive and moving portrait of the<br />
gifted, tragic figure of Hawthorn. Talented yet full of himself,<br />
this English playboy lived and drove in an era when motorsport<br />
regularly claimed the lives of many men as young and gifted as<br />
himself. His was a rare talent that enabled him to win both<br />
the fated Le Mans 24 Hours race in June 1955 and the Formula 1<br />
World Championship in 1958, while still having enough chutzpah<br />
to walk away from racing at the top of his game to run his own<br />
business. Still, Hawthorn couldn’t avoid meeting his own untimely<br />
end, as he crashed in his Jaguar on an English public road in 1959,<br />
far off the tracks that propelled him to fame.<br />
10th June<br />
EXPO 2017 IN KAZAKHSTAN<br />
The Kazakhstani capital of Astana will<br />
be the hosting city of the Expo 2017,<br />
as the Central Asian nation puts in its bid<br />
to become a world hub for sustainable<br />
energy. Taking the theme of ‘Future<br />
Energy’, the Expo will host up to three<br />
million visitors in three months and map<br />
out future challenges to the energy<br />
sector. The event will bring together<br />
the world’s most powerful people with<br />
innovative thinkers from more than<br />
100 countries in an attempt to outline<br />
tomorrow’s energy landscape. The Expo<br />
will take place at a specially-designed<br />
complex spreading over 170 hectares<br />
in the heart of Astana, including a<br />
25 hectare exhibition centre, designed by<br />
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.<br />
At the end of the event, the forum will<br />
draw up a manifesto of values and<br />
principles that will guide governments<br />
in sensible and economic energy use<br />
for the future.<br />
THE JAGUAR 15
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