love the sound of the double clutching downshifts... music to my ears. the sports cars of that era really were the most beautiful in all respects: body, styling, exhaust note....
As did I Sebring and Daytona 1964 -1973 Down from Tampa... Via PV-544, 122S, MGB, Falcon Sprint Corvair van, Chevy Van..... Been a Ferrari sports racer fan ever since Not a F-1 TUFFIOSI type But NART... Tony a2z (RIP) became a VERY good friend, 2009 < Miss him terribly.... I turned 72 years of age in July... FORZA FERRARI! J.X.
Hell yeah. What is up? You just checking? The old professor Live free or die! Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic!!!!!!! The truth will stand before God when the world falls. No Shit…….
Absolutely love RU-vids randomness!!!! Great footage of a golden era @ Le Mans. FACT: Winning #9 GT40 went on to win '69 LM 24 hrs [ #6/chassis 1075], thus being the only chassis to win the race more than once.
when I was a kid I had an uncle who had a slot car track with classic models similar to this one in the video and I wondered what the real races should be like with those cars. as in the 80's the market in my country - Brazil - was closed to other cultures and it was very rare to find imported material as well as technological and sports information including the world of autosports... the TV only showed Formula 1 races and rarely other national race categories but nothing from other countries. I searched the newsstands for some magazines about it but never found anything. So I looked back at those models of slot cars without ever knowing how it was the noise of the engines, the drivers, who sponsored and mainly the people who had the privilege to watch and follow. I see this now and I'm grateful because the internet exists.
The FIA wouldn't, it's banned due to safety concerns of the drivers, they run and get into their cars but they hardly wear their safety harness properly resulting in crashes, injuries and such. The last year to implement the famous 'Running starts' or the 'le mans' style start was '69. Although it is used in some vintage motorracing today it is used in the 24 hours of Motos in motorcycle endurance racing.
11:48: Willy Mairesse did not properly close his door before taking off on the LeMans start. The door flew open on the Mulsanne and while trying to close it he lost control of the car and crashed into the trees. He suffered career ending injuries. This incident followed by John Woolfe's death the following year on which he was thrown from the car because he did not fasten his seat belt led to the end of the LeMans starts.
today are the 2018 LM, and i am sitting here and it's another time that i can hardly believe how wonderful mankind was only 50 years ago. i'd include the 60's, but regarding the lessons learnt from vietnam i absolutely say the 70's were our pinnacle (besides development of health/care, human rights and FX, and, cold war ofc, i.m.h.o.;) style-wise it was easily top. society was even openminded for everything spiritual. just look at those those scenes from nightracing, listen to the music... heartgasm
As an old Ford guy, I think I liked the '68/'69 wins the most...Ford had dominated in '66 and '67 with their 427 powered GT40's but Le Mans declared a 5 liter limit for '68 and so the top GT-40 teams went with the new for '68 Ford 302 (albeit a specialized racing block with 4 bolt mains), which was bored to 305 cubic inches (5 liters)...but the 302 heads were not very good and Dan Gurney had designed a new head which he manufactured with Harry Weslake at Rye in England...the initial heads were manufactured by Alcoa in America and known as the Mk I, with further testing and development in '65, '66, and '67 and culminated in the Mk IV heads which were used on the winning GT-40's in '68 and '69. Some of the Mk V road car heads are still available today if you really look...I priced a set about 10 years ago with an eye towards building a boss 302 engine for my '65 HIPO Mustang with Gurney-Weslake heads...but the price (about $7,500 bare) pushed me off...I figured fully configured with period induction would have been a $12,000 project just from the heads up.
They changed the rules so Ford wouldn't keep dominating. But they ended up dominating for two more years anyway. They should have never change the rules. The best car should always win. The 68 rules forced car makers to hold back.
todays le mans is full of safety….thank you...but to see how people run around the track those days is just scary….fuck those was the reel pioneeres of racing at that time.....LOTS OF RESPECT TO HA´WAT THEY DID becos they loveded it. emageing to be able to control one of those beasts of an racingcar in those conditions….i wish i v´wsa nearly that brave.....
I don't think the driver in question, Brian Muir was a 'Champagne Sipping Playboy'. In fact legend has it that J W Automotive boss John Wyer was so insensed by the poor driving which caused the car to end up in the sand bank that he refused to pay Muir his £750 race fee.
This race also saw the career-ending accident of Mauro Bianchi (the younger brother of Lucien Bianchi who would die driving an Alfa Romeo in a pre-race test session for the 1969 24 hours of le mans in march) who crashed approaching the esses and his car bursting into flames,suffering severe head and arm burns but ultimately surviving.
Regarding the long straight...I read once that one of the reasons the '65 GT40's didn't finish the race was the transmission's 4th gear wouldn't hold up...from all the abuse it took on full throttle all the way down the long straight...of course the '65 was also powered by a 289 HIPO which didn't have the HP of the 427 used in '66 and '67 so who knows if it would have won even if they had finished the race.
In 1965 Ford fielded 6 gt40s, two shelby MkII with the 427 and 4 independent Mk1 with 289s......Phill Hill put his MKII on the pole.....all of the 289 GTs died of overheating issues......Bruce Mclarens 427MKII expired with transmission trouble......Phil Hill began to lose his clutch so just for show he completely opened it up and set a record of 218 mph on Mulsanne.......then his clutch completely failed.
There were never any direct deaths with the old traditional start to Le Mans. All the drivers were safely inside their cars when the first one got away.
Look at those tiny brake pads. I thought that it was a guy bragging about his stamp collection. I can’t figure out why they didn’t make bigger brakes as he cars got faster.
Haha, you see that's the ole Savoir Vivre of Southern Germany. All the 'ardenticy' went into engineering. The wine and beer and 'Käsespätzle' onto the hips. 🌷;)
That is Rudi Lins, an Austrian, in semi-works 907 #35. German Udo Schütz was even bigger but driving for Alfa in 1968. As a skipper, "the bull" won the 1993 Admiral's Cup.
Is is true that the 1968 Le Mans race had originally been scheduled for June 8th-9th, but was postponed after the assassination of U.S. senator Bobby Kennedy??
altfactor The Kennedy assassination in June a week before the scheduled race may have influenced matters. However, the civil unrest, industrial disputes and strikes in France simmered and disrupted things some time before that.
Americentrism at its best. France had a general strike on 13 May and ongoing major unrest in May 1968, with de Gaulle in 29th even fleeing to Germany, of all places. The 24h race was scheduled for June 15-16, but scrutineering and practice is always in the week before, so teams have to show up in time.
The rules were changed in 68 because the MK2 and MK4 Big displacement engines were considered too powerful. You can thank a butt hurt Enzo Ferrari for that.
@@romesrepublic Ferrari, the 1967 sports prototypes champions, did not enter Le Mans nor the World Sportscars Championship in 1968 because their 4 litre V12 P4 prototypes were considered too fast, too nimble and too pretty compared to the British-American straight-line clunkers. You can thank a butt hurt Henry Ford II and even more butt hurt internet croakers for that. Besides, the 3 litre Ford P68 was crap, surely Ferrari is to blame for that too, eh? Without a defending champion in 1968, JWA Gulf took LM and the WC for Ford with the 4,7 litre GT40s, competing against underdog Porsche which only had small 2.2 litre 907 until 1967, with the yet unreliable new 3 litre 908 scoring only one WC win in 1968. Thus they drank the GT40 koolaid and got themselves the 4,5 litre 917 as a sportscar for 1969. So much for big displacement engines being considered too powerful.
