Bentley Speed 8

... evoking the glory days when Bentley dominated the 24-hour endurance event, winning it no fewer than five times between 1924 and 1930.
After its 2003 victory in the hands of Tom Kristensen, Dindo Capello and Guy Smith, the Speed 8 and its sister car (which finished second in the same race, driven by Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell and David Brabham), retired from competition.

The mighty 600bhp, 217mph Speed 8 inevitably differs dramatically in appearance and power from the 200bhp, 125mph Speed Six Bentleys which won at Le Mans in 1929 and '30, but each demonstrated the marque's legendary reliability, and the victories have gone down in Bentley - and motor racing - history.

Source: JUST CARS, July 2009, Collectors Issue #161