David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

My great hero in racing is Tom Christensen.

Fellow Dane, the Mr. Le Mans, as they call him.

The greatest endurance race in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has been won more times than any other by Tom Christensen.

He won the race nine times.

So Tom...

just really turned me on to Le Mans.

I'd been watching Le Mans since, I think, the 80s.

I have my earliest memories of watching that on TV.

The race has been going since, I think, 20s.

But in the 80s, I got kind of into it.

And then in the late 90s, early 2000s, when Tom started winning, I, like pretty much every other Dane, started watching the race almost religiously.

So I thought, you know what?

I want to get to Le Mans.

This is the magic thing about racing, that

If I get into basketball, I can't set a realistic expectation that I'm going to play in the NBA, that I'm going to go to the finals.

Or I get into tennis and I'm going to play at Wimbledon.

That just doesn't happen.

But racing is special in this way because it requires a fair amount of money to keep these cars running.

It's really expensive.

It's like having a small startup.