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Racing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans by Peter Grimsdale (Hardcover, 2021)
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They raced at the fashionableBrooklands circuit and then set their sights on the fledgling24 Hours Le Mans race. An audacious goal for a British car, yet the Bentley Boys rose to the challenge. The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans – the race they made their own.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RAC MOTORSPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Glorious...gripping and sometimes tragic' Robbie Coltrane The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans - the race they made their own. Le Mans, 1927. W.O. Bentley peered into the dusk. His three cars, which had led from the start, were missing. Two years running he had failed to finish. Once again he was staring into a void. Racing, his shareholders told him, was a waste of money. This race looked like being his last. W.O's engineering skills had been forged on the Great Northern railway and in the skies of the First World War, where Bentley-powered Sopwith Camels took the fight to Germany's Red Baron. Determined to build and race his own cars, he assembled a crack team from all strata of 1920s Britain, from East End boys Leslie Pennal and Wally Hassan to multi-millionaires Woolf Barnato and Tim Birkin, men in search of adventures to blaze their way out of the dark past. They dedicated themselves to building the perfect road and racing car. In the hayloft above their workshop, the first Bentley was born and soon it was the car of choice for the fast-living upper classes. They raced at the fashionable Brooklands circuit and then set their sights on the fledgling 24 Hours Le Mans race. An audacious goal for a British car, yet the Bentley Boys rose to the challenge. But on that night in 1927, after the biggest crash in racing history claimed their cars, could they still pull it off and put British motor racing on the map? In the 1920s, Bentley Motors burned brightly but all too briefly; yet its tale, filled with drama, tragedy, determination and glory still shines a century on.Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-139781471198267
eBay Product ID (ePID)12049029902
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Publication Year2021
Book TitleRacing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreSports
AuthorPeter Grimsdale
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Width153 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPeter Grimsdale
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- 09. Apr. 2023
Great motor racing history
Gripping read! See also High Performance by the same author.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 05. Jan. 2022
Nothing of consequence new.
Basically a precis of most of the existing Bentley histories, B&W illus. are all familiar, could have done with some knowlegable proof-reading. good present for youngster.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 04. Aug. 2021
As above
Great detail and well structuredBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 07. Dez. 2021
perfect
perfectBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
