Lister Storm GT1/GT

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.