Continuing the Jaguar E-type's 50th birthday celebrations, Goodwood has unveiled its Jaguar E-type sculpture to feature during the festival of Speed weekend. It's a beauty, too, and a keep-it-in-the-company effort, as it has been fashioned from Tata steel.

Made fron steel tubes, the distinctive shape of the world's most-loved sports car is 28m tall and weighs 150 tonnes – about the same as 122 Series 1 E-types. Echoing the curved bodywork of the car itself, the sculpture has been created using half a kilometer of painted steel tubes 1200mm in diameter. Originally intended for use in gas pipelines, these are constructed from 12mm thick steel and machined to very high tolerances. Much of the metal was donated by Tata Steel, a subsidiary of Jaguar’s parent company.

Appropriately for the car that earned itself a permanent place in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the E-type’s sensual shape has been recreated and transformed into a work of art itself by world-renowned sculptor Gerry Judah. The design process began in January and was followed by detailed engineering calculations and planning stages that lasted four months.

See it for yourself this weekend: www.goodwood.co.uk