Le Mans The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939
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Le Mans The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939 In this volume of the Le Mans history, so evocative because the reports of this famous 24-hour race are on-the-spot, topical accounts published in the leading motor journals at the time each race was recently concluded, we come to the exciting period when, for a full 24 hours, racing was at the pitch of that in other formulae, speeds those of pure racing cars, more or less, reaching some 200mph down the long Mulsanne straight. The course had changed somewhat, spectator interest and attendances had increased considerably, but in essence the race was the same, except that faster prototype cars had joined the former, and understandably more staid, production-type sports cars. This engenious marathon of a contest, intended to improve and publicise such cars, is quite unique, an institution as much approved of and spectated at by British motor-racing enthusiasts as by the French, in whose heartland it has taken place since 1923. With the Bentley victories of 1924 by John Duff and Frank Clement and from 1927 to 1930, with the great green cars coming home 1, 2, 3, 4 in the seventh race of the series, the interest Le Mans aroused here could be easily understood. Of course, this was not quite the first motor race of such an ambitious duration and it was copied, notably at Spa, where another 24-hour
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