Le Mans Movie - Opening Lap Scene 

Still the best movie ever made about auto racing. Props to Steve McQueen for going all in to get it made. 👍

I went to Le Mans when I was stationed in the Army in Germany. If you're a car guy, you will never forget the atmosphere, the crowd, the carnival of the place. I can still see in my mind the glowing red hot brakes of the Cobras trying desperately to slow down. And then, the explosion coming out of a turn. The locals were shocked at the level of brute force sound of Shelby's masterpiece. Ah, the memories of an old man.

First time watching this movie was on the roof of our house watching the drive-in on the other side of the interstate highway. Dad and I sat up there watching these incredible racing scenes in silence. Didn't matter.

"Racing is life, everything else is just waiting..."

Damn, I'm going to have to re-watch this movie! I forgot how good it is. As a child of the seventies, i grew up with a poster of the three 917 short tail cars running 1, 2, 3, in the rain above my bed. I also wanted to BE one of the guys driving this level of mayhem. Although I've made a living driving race cars a couple of brief periods of my life, I've never got to this level.

All that plus the old track layout forever captured so well.

I don't know if anyone noticed but they added the little detail of the 917 LH (white) being faster than the 917k (blue) in the straights.

I've always liked this movie and the opening scene was very well thought out and executed.

You can feel that intensity in the first part. Everything feels like it’s in slow motion, heart is beating itself out of the chest. You feel like you want to quit before the race even starts.

I think this is the 2nd best racing movie ever made. 1966's Grand Prix I give 1st place due to having more spectacular race footage and just raw racing, like shown here. McQueen's crash scene in this movie is superbly choreographed and edited. With the split real time speed and slow speed you feel the impacts and violence of the crash.

That Elford/Ahrens 917LH...👍

Flat 12 Air cooled Porsche 917 flat out is beautiful music 🎵

Aucun film, même récent, n'arrive à la cheville de ce monument ! La descente après la passerelle Dunlop 👌😍 Et puis ces voitures sont tellement belles, si pures dans leurs lignes... Intemporel !

The sound of that 917 at the end has been my ringtone for the past 10 years.

Actual ambiance of cars / footage / sounds of 24 LM race + a bit of drama = Great movie. Depicts the true character of a 24 LM race, particularly of that era. Terrific prototypes, among my all-time favorites. McQueen's involvement is memorable. 👍

There is just something special about the shape of the Group C cars that can't be matched by current designs.

Can't wait for L'Electrique Le Man's de 24 minutes

" turn the speakers 🔊 up loud!!" Laugh 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣

Proper track, real consequencies, no aids, proper cars. Drivers blessed with real Titanium appendages.

I saw this film 3 times in my hometown Luanda with my parents. It’s still the one who makes love this sport and in particular Porsche!

Still all these years later no movie has ever made the spectator fell the speed like this movie

These machines sound great. These cars are well balanced! They were built to go fast and stick to the road.... A great version of car racing..... Thanks!!!

Wonderful !!! There are 3 films that car race lover must see and this one belongs to this very private club. The 2 others being Ford vs Ferrari and Rush. These 3 film all focus on epic duels between car makers or pilots which is the basis of racing :). I do love this one ( I am French and I don t need to read a lot of subtitles :)). Thx for this entry scene even if a little jerky on my screen. I do like at 4:00 the car « parade ». In the film , the car crash is probably one of the best scene ever filmed. Thx for making all these memories go back… I will perhaps review it again :).

I went to Le Mans in 2008. It was quite an experience.

Went Twice Early 2000 nds Brilliant time Never forget..

The best❤

Love it! Thanks for uploading this!

La mejor película de AUTOS DE CARRERAS junto con GRAND PRIX FILM 👌👌😍😍😍😍😍 STEVE MCQEEN

Funny, this old-school primitive ICE car racing. The length of the race is about 4800 kilometers. The newest battery technology would give a BEV a 1000 km range after which it takes about 30 minutes to charge. This means that BEVs won't be able to compete unless they can be charged while racing along.

Ohh baby just listen to those Ferraris and Porsche engines sing!! Man I almost wish I was born in this time period, where sports cars were affordable. The average guy if he worked hard enough had an actual chance of racing at this race, even if it was a basic Porsche 911.

I wanted to be a Race Car going to the movies in Philly on Sunday afternoon and watching this movie over and over again and my Ex Crazy.

Les oiseaux aiment aussi les voitures de course ♥️

Yes it's great you had to be a driver back then even today those cars are still very fast compared to the new ones

" i have dvd large screen sharp tv 📺 " amazing theatre sound 😀 from expensive speakers 🔊 😀 !" To enjoy 😉 " this iconic movie 🎬 !!"

Thank you 👍

The cars the engines the sound

LOVED IT AS A KID & LOVE IT JUST AS MUCH, Steve Mcqueen THANK YOU! You took my breath away as a 9 year old! Can still feel my ass in my seat with my pop & brother on either side, I was in that car!

Very nice video but... Should be fine to recode in X264 or H264 in place of the 265 you obviously implemented.

É 10!!!

Sweet

Steve McQueen

L'ancienne courbe Dunlop j'ai vu des courses moto et auto quel pied

Ok, whilst i recognise the 917s, what's the white car, disappearing off into the distance??

Where they not permitted to start the engines until flag dropped and when did running to the cars end?

Vroom, Vroom!!! 🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎

They don't make moves like this enay more

I remember watching this movie with my first “girlfriend “.

I saw this movie at the theater with my dad when I was 9, and I left as a life-long Porsche enthusiast. I started my subscription to Road & Track then and knew all the specs of the 911's from all the reviews. I was able to club race a Porsche for 20 years, and my current street Porsche is a 991.2 GT3 (with a rear muffler bypass of course for that Cup Car sound!), and it all started because of this movie way back then

I love how it captures those moments of silence, watching "the pack" coming at you. All race fans know that feeling of anticipation.

The sound of the 917 in car after negotiating the s bends and accelerating past the stands... when he shifts up... that sound!... goose bumps.

Legendary 1970 LeMans, unsurpassed circuit, top 917s and 512s. What a beauty! And a movie made with great racing taste!

Those engine sounds though 🤌🤌

The film's producers even got the first lap's timing right, at a bit over three and a half minutes. It's those little details which add to the film! And I always enjoy that tweeting bird atop the Mulsanne's Armco barrier.

Never gets old. Not ever.

The Porsche 917 is one of the most beautiful vehicles ever built, and a real engineering marvel. Love this movie! I also just noticed after all these years that McQueen’s arch rival driver also portrayed a German army intelligence officer in the movie, “Patton”.

No words, nothing said, all done. Pure action and adrenalin. This movie is about a race, the star is the race, and it show!

Interesting factoid. This film was originally written by Alan Trustman who at the time was maybe the biggest screenwriter in Hollywood. He had co-written Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, etc. He didn't want to write the script Steve McQueen wanted, and they had a big falling out. The film had a difficult shoot, with original director John Sturges basically fired. McQueen himself was almost replaced early on by the studio with Robert Redford, but McQueen had enough clout. He wasn't just a top actor, he was a movie star, and a powerful one. So much so, after McQueen's frustration with Trustman, poor Trustman barely worked again in the business. Iroically, his replacement, Harry Kleiner (who co-wrote Bullitt with Trustman, as well as other top films, Fantastic Voyage, etc.) took a lot of blame for the film's weak story, and his career quickly sank to the bottom as well. He had one TV script that was already sold (about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), then a long, long time in the cold, sixteen years exactly, seven years after McQueen had died, before he sold another script (Extreme Prejiduce, starring Nick Nolte). The maddening part is that while the love story and McQueen's character aren't very good, this is a unique, interesting film, impeccably shot, with it's place in history well received. Crazy business.

The iconic Gulf liveried Porsche 917 never won Le Mans except in the Steve McQueen film.

These cars were so fast that you can actually see real life struggle to maintain a solid framerate.

God I love this movie. The 917 ‘bark’ is one of the most exotic sounds ever produced.

One of the greatest scenes EVER >>>> Saw it on the BIG screen back in the day ... When I left the theater it had been raining .. You should have seen the people leaving the parking lot !!!!!

I can watch this movie and Grand Prix, over and over. Love them both.

I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out. It was fantastic stuff. I haven’t seen a clip from this movie in years and it stands the test of time. The rawness of the race and the daring of the spectators and marshals standing so close to the action risking their own lives with nonchalance is a time capsule never to be replicated! I was a Steve McQueen fan from here on out. The coolest actor who ever lived!

Easily the best racing movie.All those wonderful racing sequences killed it at the box office, but it remains a joy to race fans to this day.

Our English housekeeper took me to see it when I was 8, because her son was a racer for Sterling Moss, and I became obsessed with it, begging to see it whenever I saw it on a theater marquis. When I found it on DVD, I ran it on Loop for about 2 weeks... until my player burned out.

Between this movie and Grand Prix...some of the best filmed footage of racing. Not overdone. Just right.

Can’t help it…. Pedro Rodriguez, Jo Siffert Jackie Icx great names of 24 H

Steve McQueen and my father will forever be the reason I got into cars. I watched Bullitt for the first time when I was 8 with my dad (mind you, I'm only 31, my dad just has great taste in all things film-related). Not realizing what a monster he had created, he showed me this film as well as every other car-related movie he could come up with. Over 20 years later, I have a 1973 Mustang Mach 1 that is anything but stock, still frequently search for old cars anywhere I find myself in, and still regularly watch Mecum and Barrett-Jackson with my dad when he and I get together. An expensive hobby, but there is no replacement for it.

24 Hours of Le Mans movie with Steve McQueen was auto racing at its best!

When Le Mans went to a rolling start they took away one of the great moments in racing. Watching the cars approach the start line doesn't come close to matching the tension of the silence leading up to the flag drop.

I saw this movie late one Saturday night on the old console TV. I must have been 12 years old and it was life changing.

One of the best race movies I ever seen, my dad took me to see this film and I walk out a race lover for life.

Gorgeous scenes with the Porsche 917, that company's very first Le Mans champion.

Leaps and bounds better than any CGI squence we saw in Ford V Ferrari....

I was at this race, it was amazing....They used a 908 Porsche during the race as a camera car to get some of the actual footage...we could actually walk thru the woods to the Mulsanne straight and stand just feet away from the track. The sound was amazing !!

I love the movie, but I especially love the first lap. The greatest crime in motor racing was removing the curve up to the Dunlop bridge from the start line. And don't let me start about those damn chicanes on the.... 😠

The only true motor racing film, what a feeling it must have been to race on this track, flat out down Mulsanne at 200+ in a proper racing car with no electronic aids, just pure driver skill, feeling everything by the seat of their pants, before it all became sanitised

Watching the cars pass the pits, with people standing feet away from cars going over 100 mph, very little guard rails or barriers etc on the opposite side of the track, no fencing, in fact very little had changed since the disaster in 1955.......

The way they filmed the start of that, with absolutely NO SOUND, was brilliant! It's the LOUDEST SILENCE ever, capturing the intensity and concentration of the drivers. It also amplifies the sound of the cars once they start.

This film is a thing of exquisite beauty.

as the ruf porsche designer/tuner himself idolized the car and said "the 917 just has this sound, that's out of this planet." i couldn't agree more.

I was sixteen watching this movie in the theater. Great movie, but the best part was leaving the theater and so many cars burning rubber getting out of parked lot. That was great

It still gives me chills 50yrs on.

Driven the Mulsanne straight in a VW Beetle in 1972 - tool 15 minutes but great fun!

McQueen made a racing masterpiece with this classic film, he probably never realised it at the time though. Fifty years later has proved he was way ahead of the game 👍

I attended several Grad Prix races in Europe in the late 60's and early 70's, and all that was missing from the Le Mans race movie was the smell of the racing cars thrown in. There's nothing quite like it.

The days of real racing, no down force, no fire foam , lol no nothing, unlike today , just the yoke now has 25 functions, 1969 lotus,, 3

Still gives me goosebumps all these years after seeing it for the first time in 1971.

"Racing is a blood sport,its life ,anything before and after is just waiting"Steve McQueen. I remember my order sister taking me this movie 1970ish when it came out about 8 years old,i loved it,i also remember people walking out of the theater.i whent straight home after the movie too play with my hot wheels cars.LOL🤣

Saw this at the theater when I was 12. The 917K remains my favourite car to this day.

This short piece of footage is probably the best testimony there is to that era. Within a couple of years, because the Porsche 917s were hitting 250mph on the Mulsanne Straight, the rules were changed to slow them down. Once all of the chicanes were added I lost interest in Le Mans. The Start in the movie was the only year they ever used it. Up until the year before they used the traditional Le Mans start where the drivers ran to their cars. However, there were too many reports of drivers not buckling up on the start and at 200+mph steering with their knee while trying to do so. For safety the 1970 race was a symbolic transition where the drivers were already in their cars and started them when the flag was dropped. The following year they went to the rolling start they've used since. When Steve McQueen decided to make this film he said his goal was to show racing from the inside. I've talked with many people who don't understand this. The thumping noise on the start is exactly what a driver's heart rate does. Having crashed a couple of times in my driving years he has it right with the momentary confusion, spasms, etc. I almost got up and left when people were so ignorant they laughed at the Ferrari driver's "stop-jerk, back & forth" trying to run away from his crash. I'd like to see anyone not do same after a high-speed crash. Steve McQueen was a one of a kind. There will never be another.

Glad I bought Le Mans on Blu-ray several years ago. I'm probably will watch it again after Memorial Day weekend races (Indy 500, Monaco, and Coke 600).

What I would do to see another movie as real as this. Today’s computer generated action movies are just trash.

The Ferrari looks amazing

Thank god for video so we can enjoy that sound never to be heard again of roaring 12 cylinder works of mechanical art with a voice like no other..

This movie is to racing films what 2001 is to sci-fi.

何度観てもマックィーンは本物のレースを映画に焼き付けたいと言う情熱が伝わってくる。

The Prototype cars were the most beautiful ever

INT. DELANY'S TRAILER. The race drones on outside, as the rain starts to pour in droves. LISA(to Delaney) Why is it so important to you to drive faster than other people? (a pause) DELANEY(with much thought) To a Racer, Racing is Life..... everything else in between..... is just waiting.

Y en la recta de Hunaudieres, Vick Elford le dijo a Pedro Rodriguez: "Pedro, yo te voy a mostrar la diferencia entre cola corta y cola larga..." y luego de Mulsanne, Pedro no lo vio más...