Born on this day in 1945, Alain de Cadenet was a patriotic Brit with a French name who flew the flag at Le Mans in his very own cars. In today's Great Read, Cadenet looks back on two decades of sports car racing with Simon Taylor — who played a key role in his motor sport start...
Countless schoolboys have fantasised about winning Le Mans, perhaps in a car painted in patriotic dark green; perhaps – even better – in a self-built car carrying their own name. But the Briton who came closest to turning that fantasy into fact knew nothing of cars when he was a boy. In his boarding-school youth Alain de Cadenet was more interested in collecting stamps. It was only after losing a girlfriend to a racing driver that it occurred to him to take an interest.
"This gorgeous girl was pulled off me by a man who said he was a racing driver. So I phoned up Autosport to ask how you became one of those. The phone was answered by the office junior, some fellow called Simon Taylor."
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