{"id":16345,"date":"2023-11-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:12:30","slug":"books-racing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/books-racing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Books – Racing In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"
“RACING IN THE DARK: When The Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans” – Peter Grimsdale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I have a confession to make. Until very recently, in my eyes Bentley was just a “cheaper Rolls Royce”. Yeah, they had a lot of victories at Le Mans and won again in 2003<\/a>, nonetheless for the last 50 or 60 years it was just a luxury brand. Very good cars, no doubt, yet only a luxury brand. However, that view changed a lot after I read Peter Grimsdale’s book. With a fluid and enticing writing, Grimsdale showed me the story of W. O. Bentley, and his saga to make a great car. And he did – with blood, sweat and tears he made what was at the time, probably THE best sports car in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately though, financial strife ended his dream, to the point where the once great Bentley Motors became a cheaper Rolls Royce \ud83d\ude23. I truly loved the book – honestly, without a doubt the best car book I read in the last couple of years. A hardback with not too many photos (unfortunately), it is easily available at Amazon. Despite the title, I would say this book would be for all motorsports enthusiasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. Until very recently, in my eyes Bentley was just a “cheaper Rolls Royce”. Yeah, they had a lot of victories at Le Mans and won again in 2003, nonetheless for the last 50 or 60 years it was just a luxury brand. Very good cars, no doubt, yet only … Continue reading “Books – Racing In The Dark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-le-mans","category-road-cars","post_format-post-format-image"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}