A documentary on the 1980 Le Mans 24-hour car racing classic, centred around Canadian-born Australian driver Allan Moffat making his first bid to win Le Mans
Allan Moffat was a racing hero of my youth, the way he crushed Bathurst in the 70's was inspiring. He always held himself well. He behaved like a gentleman, was honest and modest with the media and was impossible not to like. He was not the most popular of racing drivers in Australia at the time, but he was never participating in a popularity contest.
Damn, first endurance race at Le Mans in a widowmaker 935. I knew Allan was brave as a driver, but he must have balls the size of planets to take this on...
The scene with the marshal sweeping the track just before the race start was the result of one of the course cars, out on a sighting lap to report track conditions to race control, binned it on the lap and really annoyed the rep from Porsche...
I grew up rallying the Mazda rotaries in the 70’ and now am a classic Porsche man. Great to see the Porsche’s and the RX7’s giving their all at Le Mans. Best feeling in the world is a rotary singing at 8,000 revs or a 1985 911 on song when the cam comes in. You know you are alive.
I would say this brilliant film is almost second to THE actual Le Mans film if it wasn’t for the sound dropouts after half an hour. Still, I absolutely love this era of my favourite 935s which flame out on the down changes for corners. I remember them at Silverstone just before their Le Mans Fantastic to follow the close up look of these teams. Group 5 Kremer cars rule! Thank you for posting...one to keep.
Barbour Racing. A great american racing organization. IMSA running as a class in Le Mans. Maybe I am wrong, but Dick Barbour ran 935 Coca Cola with Paul Newman in 77. Material is superb!
This is Full Contact Kiwi Racing on dirt..1500kg steel chassis ,500hp Toyota/Nissan/Ford/Chevy. 4.2lt V8 race motors.- [240ci].!!!. NZ Super-stock Champs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kaf3JwAfAiQ.html&ab_channel=SpeedwayTheInsideDirt Working;= ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CfSFfgZdUx0.html&ab_channel=CharlieReville
A full on professional production like this(& a damn good one I think) surely got permission to use the Moroder music in the film so what then? His record co reneg'd the agreement re putting it on RU-vid? Or perhaps the RU-vid copyright police did this in error? 🙄 This isn't some big money maker it's merely a great documentary for info purposes. Really a shame the many sections of great race audio GONE. I imagine the master tapes may be lost forever or it'd sure be worth swapping in some good royality-free music. Not perfect but a great film - & btw that merit has nothing to do w/Moroder's music in it or not!
Édition très animée cette année là, avec la pluie qui a failli décimer le plateau en début d'épreuve .... L'équipe Dick Barbour avait de sacrés pilotes 👍🏻
What's wrong with Giorgio Moroder 's music of the "midnight express" movie? Didn't pay royalties ? Everybody was listening to that music back to 1980 ;-)
Something weird went down for sure. Either his record co or the RU-vid copyright police got a little heavy handed. This isn't some money maker but a documentary for info purposes, & a full-on production like this surely got permission. Reneg'd trying to get more $ or RU-vid are my guesses. 🙄
WOW silhouette cars this radical are all I need - it would be cheap & presumably not as dangerous now given modern materials - instead we have GT3s with much of the curb weight, less rubber, and less HP than their street equivalents
He did fine. Decent times, easy on the car and kept it between the lines. that is all an backup endurance racer is supposed to do. If they were in the running late they would have given it the beans.
Nope, just with some Aussies. Lots of us always had enough respect to know the place is in France so it ought to sound french. Interesting to see Moff out jogging, didn't know he was into being fit.
Ian B fair enough on the pronunciation. As for Moff, well, he doesn’t look like he’s done much running, and that tracksuit looks suspiciously new. Very interesting to see this doco.
40 years of development and now very different cars to shave 54 seconds off a lap... And they're pretty much flat chat all the time now... This sort of era of the big Le Mans sports cars was probably the fastest ever, but you really had to work to drive them and having a crash was a very, very bad idea...
@@jimmytweedale2191 Yes, it is just crazy. Of course, the LMP1 cars today are rather hampered for top speed by the regulations, but even if they weren't there really wouldn't be much of a difference in top speed between them and the current cars. As the Bugatti Veyron rather proved, it's very difficult and extremely energy intensive to break the 240-250mph barrier on the road and just not practical for a competitive race car...
