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…….
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My left ear loved this video
Just about to say the same thing lmao
Bruce Kirk my left foot
Bruce Kirk that was funny mon !!! 😂
best comment lol
The film is from 1968 so what do you expect?
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....
yeah drivers of those era really do have balls of steel.
Great film,the era, the teams, the drivers, the cars, and the track,where else would have this.
I was 20 years old in 1968, and I don’t remember any music that bad! Never made Le Mons, but saw these Fords Racing at Sebring! It was awesome.
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.
You still alive dude?
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…….
@@ARG0T lmao bruh
@@ARG0Tsame question
the best Le Mans start ever...bring it back
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.
Grande Pedro y grande Ricardo Rodríguez!! We miss you guys...
Mi dispiace
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.
Well good for you my man. The internet truly is something that should be appreciated.
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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
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.
Lucien Bianchi and Pedro Rodriguez - RIP
racing?
Francisco Rodriguez, Pedro Rodríguez yes and Bianchi idk
Era of the Ford GT40
The best classic start of Le Mans I've seen. The white Porche let the door close by gravity and go on without the security belt of course !
That nobody had the great idea to seperate the pits from the race track before the merc accident is beyond me.
Ahem, that accident was in 55, the pits werent separated till 72 i think
This was real sportscar racing. I love the vintage cars they wre so curvaceous!
The best track in the world by far with the best FORDS in the world
"Le Mans Start" is the "running pilot" way. Great film, great onboard lap with Stirling Moss.
What a wonderful film! Thank you for posting this.
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.
Absolutely wonderful.
I keep clicking this vid, because of the sexy thumbnail, like a work of automotive art.
You sure can see where Steve McQueen was "inspired" by certain shots/scenes from this film
Love the le mans in the 60's!❤
...awesome, thanks
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Incredible, seems more like an street circuit, than actual le Mans
Agree with Bruce. I had all the audio that the computer could muster, and just barely heard it.
Landscape looks beautiful.
Great thanks :)
Pedro Rodríguez 🇲🇽
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.
Magnífico documento!!!!
To righteyo
the simplicity or how you say that looks great , i was born to late :(
i wish i was around then.
Great video!! Viva los Hermanos Rodriguez
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.....
These men and woman drivers were brave people
200 miles an hour 😮
Your car didn't make it? Leave it on the side of the road. The glory years of racing were also damn dangerous. But they're exciting to watch.
I know Ay! End up on a sand bank? Here's a spade, dig it out!
And if you were out and left the car? ... Just walk up the straight and grab a coffee 6 ft from the straight at the cafe! :)
@@barath4545 Walk away from the car and you are DQed. Take tools or assistance from others, and your are DQed.
HAHA, GT-40 #11 In The Bunker!
Champagne Sipping Playboy has no idea how to use a Shovel.
Brilliant post TRJ, You Beauty Mate.
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.
golden age
"👏👏👏"
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.
I did not know the Mk II ran Le Mans in '65...thanx for the info.
Keeee ryste! It’s like Bonneville only on pavement with a few curves. Tires had to be the limiting factor in the day.
GT-40 was so dominant at Le Mans...had old Enzo crapping in his designer britches!
Whoa, notice all of the trees along the road.....that's dangerous as hell....no wonder so may died..
Glick has stolen Shel's black hat!
(-8D
J.C.
60's psychedelic background music. Hippy dippy times. PORSCHE comes of age for many overall wins 👍✌️🏁
🇺🇸😷
Fascinating film.. Wasn't this the last "Le Mans start"?
No, that would be 1969 when Jacky Ickx walked over to his car and calmly put on his seatbelts before setting off last..
And won!
No sound 😥
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.
Air sucking fire throwing +200 mph monsters. what a event to watch
Great Video and 25 down voters must be schooled.
Greatest Race in the world!
Who is that well known motoring journalist at 8:34? I've forgotten his name!
Fyfe Robertson, but he was not just a motoring correspondent!
Porsche is the king of Le Mans
Damn I’d love to be involved in something like that.
Unless you've got your time machine on the bench ... aspects are more like an afternoon with the dentist .. in a cleanroom . sipping Smoothies 💨;)
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.
6:38 Jules Bianchi's great-uncle
200 MPH and no seatbelts....
And no brake too 😊
Seatbelts were available already at that era, but they were waist type.
Pretty sure they had seat belts by then. F1 did and 4 point harnesses
@@psk5746 I agree... Safety aside, they needed to keep the drivers in their seat while pulling 1.5+ G's around a track all day..
Pre 917 512
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.
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6:12 Man that's one well fed race driver.
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.
11:44 Willy Mairesse crashed because he didnt close his door properly if I'm not mistaken
And in a few short years, Ford will go on to make the Mustang II
so who won? Schumaher, Ken Block, Ramstain?
As always: Donald J Trump.
11:50 it sound like actual F1 wtf
Uhm, no seat belts ? When you look at the start, they just jump into the car and go pedal to the metal instantly, no time to fasten seat belts....
Ford retired. Audi retired
When men were men. Did I hear the one cars windshield wiper wasn't working lol damn
I don't understand why Ford dropped the Mk IV and entered the older GT40's.
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.
Close. That was 1969, when John Woolfe was killed on the first lap.
actually footage was from 1968
hes replying to the comment under his jerkoff
Porcshe rules
FGT40
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