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Calling yourself “Mr. Anything” takes a certain amount of arrogance. It’s completely immodest, and very few get to self-apply that title. That’s why this book’s title, Mr. Le Mans: Tom Kristensen, is both right on the money and strangely off. Tom Kristensen is a lot of things. However, he’s not full of himself, loud, obnoxious, or an otherwise complete jerk. But one thing you can definitely call him is Mr. Le Mans.

In His Own Words

On one level, this is a surprising book: It’s written by Tom Kristensen. A lot of famous peoples’ autobiographies these days are very much bio and not much auto. As near as I can tell, Kristensen actually wrote this himself, in Danish, then had it translated and gone through by nominal co-author Dan Philipsen. This fits because Tom Kristensen is a model of modern Danishness. He’s got the broad handsome features, the thoughtful, very well-spoken demeanor, and the quiet, Nordic stubbornness that means he’s going to see something through to the end. Before anyone would mention that he’s from Denmark, you could pick him out as being from the same place as Niels Bohr and Søren Kierkegaard.
The only difference is that Tom Kris...