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Mr Le Mans Tom Kristensen: Tom Kristensen
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Between 1997 and 2014, Tom Kristensen won the worlds toughest motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, a record nine times and finished on the podium on five more occasions. Every time his car made it to the finish, in fact, he was in the top three. It is no wonder that this great sports car driver is known as Mr Le Mans to motorsport fans around the world.Now retired from racing, Kristensen shares in this book his deepest personal reflections and insights from inside and outside the cockpit. He looks back on more than 30 years spent striving for perfection in racing and tells of the battles and setbacks that sometimes seemed impossible to overcome, including a terrible accident in 2007. Climbing the racing ladder, from karting into Formula 3 singleseaters, including championship titles in Germany (1991) and Japan (1993), then Formula 3000 and a Formula 1 testing role with Tyrrell. Winning as an underdog on his first visit to Le Mans, in 1997 driving an elderly Joestrun privateer Porsche in which he impressed all onlookers with a nighttime charge to vanquish Porsches factoryentered favourite. His second Le Mans victory came in 2000 on his maiden drive for Audi in the R8, a car that was to become allconquering. Kristensen won the next five editions of Le Mans, four times with Audi and once with Bentley (in 2003), his last victory in this sequence taking him past Jacky Ickxs previous record at the Circuit de la Sarthe. His eighth win came in one of the alltime classic contests at Le Mans, in 2008, a rollercoaster of a race in which his ageing dieselpowered Audi was never expected to beat the fancied works Peugeots. One more victory with Audi in 2013 sealed his reputation as a true legend of Le Mans. His story includes exploits at other racetracks all over the world, none more prolific than Sebring, home of Americas longestablished classic endurance race that Kristensen won six times. Personal reflections together with contributions from notable observers including English journalists Gary Watkins and Charles Bradley complete a truly rounded portrait of the man and his achievements. Voted Sports Book of the Year when originally published in Kristensens native Denmark, this thoughtful memoir is now available in English.
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