Octane (Digital)

Octane (Digital)

1 Issue, December 2015

FRENCHEV REVOLUTIONS

With the unlikely-looking 40CV NM, Renault scored a host of speed and endurance records at the newly built Montlhéry bowl. Time to revisit those efforts
FRENCHEV REVOLUTIONS
THE PURSUIT of speed has long been an obsession for automobile manufacturers, but never more intently than during the 1920s. Helped by the construction of numerous purpose-built circuits designed solely with speed in mind, this inter-war period saw a burgeoning car industry embrace the challenge of setting speed records to market their products. Ever the pioneer, Louis Renault saw such feats of performance and endurance as an ideal means of generating publicity and selling cars. In the nearby Linas-Montlhéry circuit he had the ideal proving ground on which to make those attempts. Built on a 650-hectare site, the circuit was itself an extraordinary feat of engineering. Measuring a little under 1.6 miles in length – the bulk of which was two vast banked turns, linked by a pair of short straights…
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