JOURNEY TO LE MANS
“RACING IS LIFE. ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS BEFORE OR AFTER... IS JUST WAITING”
I have driven faster. But so has my co-pilot. So much faster that most of you would be blubbing like small children poked in the eye with a stick. Pleading to slow down to the point where the world made sense again. It’s Le Mans 2019. Famed racing driver Derek Bell and I are belting down the Mulsanne Straight flat out in an original Bentley from 1930. At a tear-inducing 79 miles per hour. A far cry from Bell’s days pushing the outside of the envelope going faster than almost anyone has since. Epic. Magnificent. Emotional.
The “24 Heures du Mans” Automobile Club De l’Ouest’s endurance race was first held in 1923 in
