During the 1950s Le Mans 24-hour race, Jaguar discovered that their D-Type’s fuel tank design created a dangerous sloshing effect in high-speed turns, causing sudden weight shifts that nearly caused crashes—so they hired a hydrodynamics engineer to redesign it like an aircraft fuel cell, making the car both faster and safer, a solution that became standard in motorsport fuel tank design decades before road cars adopted similar technology.
Car Fact #8 — June 24, 2026
