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The history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans began on May 26, 1923 at 4 p.m. This brand new event was created by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest four years after the end of the Great War. If it still remains confidential, it attracts foreign competitors, such as the English Bentley. For this first edition, he will only finish fourth, but totally seduced by the exercise. In the following years, the “Bentley Boys” - a group of wealthy gentlemen drivers - returned to write the myth of competition as well as the history of motorsport.This new episode of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in comics takes you back to the roots of the famous endurance race.