# Lister Storm GT1/GT

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/lister-storm-gt1/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Lister
- Discipline: gt-racing, historic-racing
- Series: gt1, le-mans
- Era: 1990s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06

The Storm is British GT1's V12 outlier: Laurence Pearce's Jaguar-hearted brute — the 2000 FIA GT championship — the front-engined answer that outlived the GT1 exotica and won as the class's last classicist.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 7.0 Jaguar-derived V12 |
| Power | ~600 hp race trim |
| Layout | Front-mid V12 GT |
| House | Lister (Laurence Pearce) |
| Ledger | 2000 FIA GT title, GT1 campaigns |
| Diligence | Chassis scholarship + V12 custody |
| Years | 1996–2003 |
| Class | GT1-era British outlier |

## History

Laurence Pearce's Lister operation built the Storm into GT racing's V12 outlier (1996 onward): the British brute — the Jaguar 7-litre V12 heart (the XJR-era engine's road-car-derived thunder, the front-mid layout against the mid-engined GT1 orthodoxy), the Storm road car's homologation base (the four-seat GT the rules required), and the long-development persistence (the small Leatherhead team refining the package across the GT1-to-GT era's resets) — racing the category's turbulent years: the GT1 seasons against the McLaren-and-Porsche exotica (the 1997-98 campaigns' class survival), the Le Mans entries, and the vindication chapter (the 2000 FIA GT championship — Bailey-and-Erdos-era crowns as the reset category's front-runner, the outlier outliving the homologation-special era it was born into).

The outlier economics frame the type: the road-derived V12 rationality (the Jaguar parts lineage against the exotica's bespoke costs), the small-team persistence culture, and the front-engined classicism the era's design wars made distinctive.

The cult identity structures the market: the tiny population's per-chassis scholarship (the works-campaign biographies the provenance spine), the 2000-title provenance summit, and the British-brute affection the GT1-era collecting wave prices.

The present is GT1-era custody: chassis-biography law, V12-custody economics, and the outlier's vindication story throughout.

## Palmarès

The 2000 FIA GT championship crown — the vindication season — with the GT1-era survival campaigns and Le Mans entries the brute's ledger.

## What to check before you buy

Outlier-brute law: per-chassis scholarship at tiny-run depth (the Storm racing population's identities and works-campaign biographies — the 2000-title cars the provenance summit), V12-custody rationality (the Jaguar-derived engine's parts lineage the ownership's distinctive economics — road-descended thunder at specialist-but-known costs), era-specification precision (GT1-versus-GT-era configurations' hardware truths), and restoration honesty per the small team's build methods. GT1-era eligibility structures the historic life; the vindication romance prices the cult — the classicist that outlived the exotica and won, trading on story and scarcity together.

## Did you know

- The V12 came from Jaguar's road: the XJR-derived seven-litre giving the brute its thunder.
- The classicist outlived the exotica: the front-engined outlier winning after the homologation specials died.
- The 2000 crown was vindication: the small Leatherhead team's persistence taking the FIA GT title.

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