A new World Record for the 'largest parade of Jaguar cars' has been confirmed as a Guinness World Record after 767 E-Types took part in a special parade lap of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.

The 2011 event was the major celebration of the 50th birthday of the iconic car and over 1000 E-types from across Europe, North America, Mexico and Australia were in attendance, and the vast majority of these took to the Grand Prix circuit on Saturday for a unique parade.

Although in excess of 800 E-types were involved, the record of 767 is based on the number of participating cars meeting the strict record verification criteria.

Among the parade were some very special examples of the E-type. These included famous E-types with registration numbers 9600 HP, 77 RW and 848 CRY as well as the Lindner/Nocker low-drag racer. The Lindner/Nocker low-drag lightweight racer was one of the 12 original Lightweight E-types, raced in 1963/64 by Peter Lindner and Peter Nocker, while 9600 HP is the oldest surviving E-type and the only 1960 prototype in existence.

Event Director Nick Wigley said “The icing on the cake is to have achieved a new Guinness World Record for the number of Jaguars on parade. It was an incredible sight to see so many examples of the beautiful and iconic E-type four abreast stretching all around the full Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.”