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14 March 2008

Le Mans: 1928

One of the finest road races ever staged on the Continent or anywhere else was run over the Sarthe circuit at Le Mans, on the 16th and 17th of June. The Sixth Grand Prix of Endurance and Twenty-Four Hour Race proved again a triumph for British cars, and what was probably the finest exhibition of driving and doggedness ever seen over this course was put up by an Englishman on an English car - Capt. H. R. S. Birkin, on the Bentley No. 3.

Le Mans: 1928
Published in "Motor Sport", July 1928

One of the finest road races ever staged on the Continent or anywhere else was run over the Sarthe circuit at Le Mans, on the 16th and 17th of June. The Sixth Grand Prix of Endurance and Twenty-Four Hour Race proved again a triumph for British cars, and what was probably the finest exhibition of driving and doggedness ever seen over this course was put up by an Englishman on an English car - Capt. H. R. S. Birkin, on the Bentley No. 3.    Continued...

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First published in the July 1928 issue of "Motor Sport"
Posted here on Mar 14, 2008