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Racing in the Dark - How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans (Paperback)
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Racing in the Dark - How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans (Paperback)
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'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.
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