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If you've never been out on a race track, you might think it fanciful that you could compete on the full 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans inside three years. Even more so that you could win your class.

But that's what Bon Grimes has achieved after getting behind the wheel of a racing car for the first time in 2015, at the age of 43.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.