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► Coincides with landmark Le MansIf you’re telling the story of 100 years of Le Mans, where do you begin? Not in 1923; not really. Because this is not just the story of an endurance race usually held in June in north-western France. It’s the story of the modern world, of the sport-business-leisure nexus, of the automotive industry, of the advance of technology, of globalisation.
‘In sixteenth place in 1934 was a Lagonda Special co-driven by Edward Southwell Russell, the 26th Baron de Clifford. Belgravia-born and Eton-educated, at 19 he had caused a stir in society by marrying the daughter of a notorious West End club-owner. An early supporter of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, he made speeches in the House of Lords advocating driving tests and speed limits.
The serious-but-fun spirit of the Bentley Boys continued for a long time, and to an extent survives today in the presence of ‘gentlemen’ drivers, although it’s been a long time since an amateur had any chance of winning the overall honours.
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