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One man’s Le Mans triumph

OVER SOUNDBITES FROM Alexei Sayle and Robbie Coltrane tell you this has wider targets than the motoring field, but then as with his previous book Grimsdale brings wider views to our little world. It means that while his story – Bentley’s Le Mans racing pre-war – is something that we’ve covered at length in these pages at the time and ever since, let alone the scores of books on the subject, we can expect some different viewpoints to go with the intended different readership. A look at the bibliography confirms this: not just

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