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DEREK BELL

The build-up to this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans saw a group of us silverbacks attend a special gala dinner at Musée Rodin in Paris. The French know how to stage this sort of thing, that’s for sure. They also know how to look after their guests, and there were 400 in total.

I was one of five winners in attendance and I got to trundle my old Porsche 917 ‘Long Tail’ along a road temporarily laid out around the gardens. I last drove it

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