This is the first time I have seen any documentary video about the 1968 Le Mans race. I always knew that the Fords won again, but I wasn't aware of how that race progressed. The Porsche team was coming on strong after watching the Fords in 65, 66 and 67. The Porsche team had great success later on, but it took far more time for them to find the right balance. The Ford GT40 came back in the 66 after their introduction in 65 and never looked back. Great job of putting together this video. No one gave the Fords much chance in 68 and 69. But this just proved that the Ford GT40 to be one of the most dominate cars to ever run at Le Mans.
The video quality of this is AMAZING! Best I have seen of any 1968 Le Mans coverage. Plus, this is the first time I have actually heard the sound of the Howmet Turbine car!! Thanks for the video!
24:11 now that looks like a Fiat Dino racing at Le Mans. I knew the history of the Fiat Dino being used to homologate the Ferrari Dino V6 engine for Formula 2 racing, but didn't know the Fiat Dino itself was raced at Le Mans. Great video thanks.
A bit of trivia about this race for the winning J.W. Ford GT40s: With the 5 liter Ford engine, they switched from a dry-sump lubricating system to a wet-sump, as a way to save on some weight and lubrication plumbing. But, it was discovered many months later that if the '68 Le Mans race hadn't been slowed by rain, there was a chance the wet-sump Ford engines would have failed to finish; as the wet-sump lubrication system had a shortcoming of the engine overheating with damaging the engine's valve heads when the cars were driven fast over many hours. That shortcoming was discovered at the Daytona 24 Hours race in February 1969, where the leading GT40, set up with the wet-sump lubrication, dropped out of the race due to a overheated damaged valve head after 13 hours.
The ol Mulsanne straight is tricky...so fast the early cars start to float with little or no downforce. At the end of the straight...when do I brake?....too early u lose time, too late u risk frying the brakes and running into hay bales or an embankment. Only ever driven the course on a SIM but still daunting stuff, those drivers were fearless and tough.
@ 8.16 Ulf Norinder from Sweden. I think he drove a Lola T70 maybe with Sten Axelsson but I´m not sure. Thanks for the upload of this wonderful film. Cheers from Sweden!
or staggering how over protective and woke everything is now. it was racing, many died. it was your choice. becoming a man or stay a pussy. nowadays all male are pussies
Just discovered your channel. Good work putting 24 hour race into half an hour. Nice coverage of the different classes other than GT. I didn't really appreciate, until now, what they were doing with the energy and performance balance classes.
4:36 ... selfmade, true racer, gentleman .. J.S. 🌹 . all these uploads are priceless, Thankyou. Besides, and being Bavarian, I simply must appreciate that Sarthe branch of our 'Blasmusik' before the ole Munich skyline 💚
@@TheDddkkk... well, as the world goes on ignoring our Lower Bavarian tongue we have to try our best with the second most exciting way to express oneself :)
Does that mean we can't translate anymore and if so who will help me to understand Aberdonian again? Lovely people but can't understand a word and I doubt they me!
Merci pour cette vidéo extraordinaire. Je n'avais jamais vu l'état de la GT40 de Mairesse (13:20), terrible accident qui laissera le pauvre pilote Belge dans un bien mauvais état qui conduira à sa triste fin en 1969. (c'est pour cette raison que Jacky Ickx se battra contre le départ des voitures en épi car les pilotes n'attachaient pas leur ceintures de sécurité pour gagner du temps, ce qu'avait fait Mairesse en 1968)
1968 I was 12 years old. Back then not too many car racing, especially when one did not have cable TV, only roof antennas, and maybe pick up 3 or 4 TV stations. Maybe 5 or 6 on a good clear day.
I first went there in 1976 and that was a scorching hot weekend. Porsche with their 936, by that time, were very dominant. Who spotted Jeff Goldblum in his green bobble hat then? 🤣
Despite regulating Ford's 7 litre engine away to help the European cars, the GT40's still managed to win in ´68 and '69. Seen this great short documentary on the ´68 Le Mans version, I realize why hautain is a French word.
It was a french document for french viewers, what you find "hautain" is what we find "hautain" in a lot of american documents... By the way "generous" and "courteous" are also french words : )
@@YOUENNNN Wish the French were more patriotic these days ;-) but courageous (courage) they still are if you look to all the protests going on. Great that they occupied the BlackRock headquarters in Paris. They seemingly and intuitively know where the suppression comes from. Courage Bleu!
Stfu with the fanboy tears..everyone gets regulated in motorsports.... The 917s would get engine sized capped as well in the following years..... Americans did it too in IMSA and in the Trans Am series with the 911 RSR and the dominating 935 family also to the Nissans in the 80s, and Audi quattro trans am and GTO.......... Oh I also forgot the Americans did too with the 917 in the Can Am series...........
I was a college freshman when this September race was run and I had followed Le Mans for about four years as best as was then possible: via newspapers and magazines often weeks late in the details. And yes, Le Mans was still exotic then. But as is evident nearly everywhere on the circuit, all was deathly dangerous. Workers and police too near or actually on the track. Wrecks here, there, and everywhere. Trees, puddles, humps, and jumps. Speed, oh the speeds, on the long, long un-chicaned Mulsanne Straight. And unlike now, nearly all cars never finished. In some ways, modern Le Mans, as beloved as it is, has been neutered. Most cars now cross the finish line. Frantic, chaotic, and semi-organized pit work has been streamlined and regulated. And the track is modified and moved to a degree that some parts are hardly recognizable in comparison to decades ago. Nonetheless, this is all for the good in terms of safety and lives of machines, men, and women now too. Still, alas, some die. Re Allan Simonsen in his Aston Martin (2013) at the then archaically designed Tetre Rouge. PS In response to Gabriel Sandoval's previous comment, despite the style, girls, and cars, the times were frightful in the US. Vietnam. You went. And died.
That's actually surprising. I made a collage-restauration to reconstruct the original version of "La Chanson des Vinght-Quatre Heures" from the 1969 documentary "La Ronde Infernale". Thus thinking that was from, and came out for that (incredible) edition of the 24h. And now, I find it here, in a '68 docu, similar but not exact (even if there's only the instrumental intro part). So then, I really wonder how old it was. Surely is from the 2nd part of 60s, but when exactly was composed for the Greatest Race in the World is still to discover for me. If you know something that I don't please let me know.
Rain, sun, rain, sun. If I am correct only about 20 cars finished. The first visit on my own to the 24 heures du mans. The 'village' was an eye opener to a young man with very French side shows, freaks, strippers et al. Nasty accident near the end with a car on fire.
ja passei o videos 4 vezes e nao vi nem o Christian Bale e nem o Matt Damon. a resolução desse videos é muito ruim, mas alguém conseguiu encontra-los ?
J'ai assisté à cette course, j'avais 9 ans. ça sentait l'huile de ricin, il n'y avait pas de boîtes séquentielles, pas d'électronique, pas de liaison radio entre pilotes et stands, une ligne droite des Hunaudières impressionnante et... des pilotes courageux, talentueux. Sincèrement, chacun pense ce qu'il veut, mais personnellement les 24 h d'aujourd'hui ne présente plus pour moi aucun intérêt! Du jeu vidéo, rien que du jeu vidéo!!!!
As usual, the Frogs change the rules to give themselves a chance! This old film clearly demonstrates the amateur and chaotic nature of top flight motorsport before safety became mandatory, odd considering the 1955 tragedy.
I just remember this edition of the 24H took place in September, because France was close to a civil war. We are therefore light years away from these shopkeeper calculations you speak of.
what a farce the FIA was changing the rules to eliminate the fast cars and hoping to let the French have a chance. Sill a 5 year old Ford GT40 took the win. (the exact same car winning the following year as well. First time ever with the exact same car winning twice) Hey if you can't beat them find a way to disqualify them or simply change the rules to benefit yourselves. What a sham!
The rule change mainly effected Ferrari. Porsche and Ford were benefited from it since they already had engines for 3.0 L prototype and 5.0 L sports car classes respectively.
...a "Ford" designed and built in Britain by British engineers and entered in 68 and 69 by a British team, JW Automotive. US engine with British designed and made cyclinder heads. Let's call it an Anglo-American success.
Please do not post any more of these videos,....when I see these types of postings I am essentially handcuffed to my PC for the duration of the video,...
13.37 lap of 205 kph and 207 kph ,think he ment 205 mph lol cause 205 kph is like 125 mph not muchJust wow bare lamp posts lining the straight ,trees ,banks ,ditches ,marshels standing behind a couple of hay bales as cars go past at 180 mph ,couple of fire engines ,cars ahd lotta gas and magnseium parts wow dangerous as
He means average speed when a lap is listed as a speed rather than a time. Nascar and indycar call the lap time this way and so does the isle of man tt. Its the same thing just a different measurement of it.
Ignoring the title card, dialogue, and various cars pictured, thus supporting the fact that this is footage from the 1968 Le Mans, I think you may be mistaking the 908s for 917. One of the short comings of the short-lived 907 was the instability at high speeds. Porsche attempted to solve this 907LH issue by adding active aero, which operated via the rear suspension, to the nearly identical 908LH. Being a further development of the 908, the early 917s had similar features, which included similar active, horizontal stabilizing flaps on the rear.
@Norbert Calenborn . . . Bianchi/Rodriguez winning GT40 definitely makes this the 1968 running, as it was the Ickx/Oliver drivers winning it in 1969; as the '69 race was _the closest finish,_ for the winning checkered-flag, in the history of the 24 hour race.
Always, over and over, the same problem with most of car racing documentary footage: the annoying voice describing what it's not needed to be described. Just pathetic redundancy. That's the reason the movie "Le Mans" remains the best. Very limited dialogue, just visual dynamics. The machines are the protagonists.
While I can't give you a specific reason, the larger answer is possibly because Napoleon had a little-man complex, but most likely due to the outcome of the Seven-Years War.
The rule change was very bad for Ferrari who had been racing a 4.0 L prototype, but great for Porsche and for Ford who could still race the GT40 with 4.7 L and 5.0 L small block engines.
Los años 60's fueron para México sin duda los mas brillantes en el deporte internacional... Rafael Osuna gano el unico grand slam para México fue el u.s open en 1963... Manuel "pulgarcito" Ramos es mexicano que contendio por titulo de peso completo en boxeo...fue contra Joe Frazier,pero perdio.Pedro Rodríguez gana las 24 hs de L'Mans todo en 1968, Raga un básquetbolista fue el primer extranjero que contrato la n.b.a. aunque no quizo ir por jugar lo j.o. de México..Memo Echavarría fue el primer y unico mexicano en obtener un record mundial en natación, creo fueron los 1,500 estilo libre .. México incluso organizo los j.olimpicos y quedo en 15vo lugar con 12 medallas y asi recuerdo otrros logros .. Juanito Martinez en atletismo Yola Ramírez en tenis ,Ruben Amaro gano el guante de oro en ligas mayores y después les pasó otros logros que hoy no los tenemos.
Just by chance discovered this film and watched about minutes .
It looks superb .
Those trees around the circuit edge are scarlet .
Should read “ Those trees around the circuit edge are scarey “
This is the first time I have seen any documentary video about the 1968 Le Mans race. I always knew that the Fords
won again, but I wasn't aware of how that race progressed. The Porsche team was coming on strong after watching
the Fords in 65, 66 and 67. The Porsche team had great success later on, but it took far more time for them to
find the right balance. The Ford GT40 came back in the 66 after their introduction in 65 and never looked back.
Great job of putting together this video. No one gave the Fords much chance in 68 and 69. But this just proved
that the Ford GT40 to be one of the most dominate cars to ever run at Le Mans.
The Ford GT40 first ran here in 1964.
They realised the car needed a lot of changes.
UA-cam search will reward.
The video quality of this is AMAZING! Best I have seen of any 1968 Le Mans coverage. Plus, this is the first time I have actually heard the sound of the Howmet Turbine car!! Thanks for the video!
thanks wonderful movie, quality is perfect.
Wonderful footage from the late 1960's and thanks for sharing it.
What’s time to have been alive! The style, the girls, the cars!
Die mangelnde Sicherheit , war verglichen mit heute , der absolute Wahnsinn !
This is a great historic document.
24:11 now that looks like a Fiat Dino racing at Le Mans. I knew the history of the Fiat Dino being used to homologate the Ferrari Dino V6 engine for Formula 2 racing, but didn't know the Fiat Dino itself was raced at Le Mans. Great video thanks.
A bit of trivia about this race for the winning J.W. Ford GT40s: With the 5 liter Ford engine, they switched from a dry-sump lubricating system to a wet-sump, as a way to save on some weight and lubrication plumbing.
But, it was discovered many months later that if the '68 Le Mans race hadn't been slowed by rain, there was a chance the wet-sump Ford engines would have failed to finish; as the wet-sump lubrication system had a shortcoming of the engine overheating with damaging the engine's valve heads when the cars were driven fast over many hours. That shortcoming was discovered at the Daytona 24 Hours race in February 1969, where the leading GT40, set up with the wet-sump lubrication, dropped out of the race due to a overheated damaged valve head after 13 hours.
coulda shoulda woulda..........who cares.........it won.
@@davidthayer6969 some say writeorrhoe is a sign of carelessness 🚗💨
Amazing video- thanks for the upload. Surprising that only 19 out of 54 finished and 15 were classified in the end. Just pure racing!
映像の発色が素晴らしくきれいですね。
pure art
Bel documentario, gran belle vetture , quelli erano tempi!!!
Don't forget the slim, beautiful ladies.
The ol Mulsanne straight is tricky...so fast the early cars start to float with little or no downforce. At the end of the straight...when do I brake?....too early u lose time, too late u risk frying the brakes and running into hay bales or an embankment.
Only ever driven the course on a SIM but still daunting stuff, those drivers were fearless and tough.
or just concrete
Thank you for uploading this documentary!
@ 8.16 Ulf Norinder from Sweden. I think he drove a Lola T70 maybe with Sten Axelsson but I´m not sure. Thanks for the upload of this wonderful film. Cheers from Sweden!
Pedro Rodríguez en plan grande, por la su manejo en la noche les dio la victoria sacando amplia ventaja. Gran piloto
Pedro Rodriguez era una leyenda mexicana del automovilismo. 🇲🇽
Sip en su memoria y la de su hermano autodromo hermanos Rodríguez ciudad de México 🇲🇽🇲🇽⛽🏎️🏍️🏍️🏍️😎🏁🏁
Es mejor la NASCAR 😅😅🏆🏆🏆🎮🎮 🏎️🏎️⛽🇲🇽🇲🇽🏳️🏁
@@JonatanLauda12 ES una leyenda.
This was a dangerous era in racing.
Superb. Thx 4 posting 👌🙏🏼staggering how unsafe it all was then.
or staggering how over protective and woke everything is now. it was racing, many died. it was your choice. becoming a man or stay a pussy. nowadays all male are pussies
Just discovered your channel. Good work putting 24 hour race into half an hour. Nice coverage of the different classes other than GT. I didn't really appreciate, until now, what they were doing with the energy and performance balance classes.
Great Material-THX a lot - love the turbine sound - wasn’t aware about these cars
Great sights and sounds - thanks for sharing.
4:36 ... selfmade, true racer, gentleman .. J.S. 🌹 . all these uploads are priceless, Thankyou.
Besides, and being Bavarian, I simply must appreciate that Sarthe branch of our 'Blasmusik' before the ole Munich skyline 💚
wow a german that can speak english, its amazing
@@TheDddkkk... well, as the world goes on ignoring our Lower Bavarian tongue we have to try our best with the second most exciting way to express oneself :)
Thank you so much for up-loading this: 👍👏👌!
This was real racing and the cars were beautiful! Especially the curvaceous red Ferraris like the 250GTO and the 330P4 !
Ok, the narrator has not seen the film, or any motor race. He's reading a literal translation of the French script!
Who cares? This is fantastic footage.
@@richard1472 yes it i s but even better without the speeding up!
@@robertknight5429
Maybe you should ask for your money back?
Does that mean we can't translate anymore and if so who will help me to understand Aberdonian again? Lovely people but can't understand a word and I doubt they me!
That’s exactly what he’s doing. It’s called translating. So SOS!
Merci pour cette vidéo extraordinaire. Je n'avais jamais vu l'état de la GT40 de Mairesse (13:20), terrible accident qui laissera le pauvre pilote Belge dans un bien mauvais état qui conduira à sa triste fin en 1969. (c'est pour cette raison que Jacky Ickx se battra contre le départ des voitures en épi car les pilotes n'attachaient pas leur ceintures de sécurité pour gagner du temps, ce qu'avait fait Mairesse en 1968)
Awesome cars and race. Though the lack of safety for EVERYONE is appalling! Another much more dangerous era for sure.
great docu thanks for post
Great film
1968 I was 12 years old. Back then not too many car racing, especially when one did not have cable TV, only roof antennas, and maybe pick up 3 or 4 TV stations. Maybe 5 or 6 on a good clear day.
I first went there in 1976 and that was a scorching hot weekend. Porsche with their 936, by that time, were very dominant.
Who spotted Jeff Goldblum in his green bobble hat then? 🤣
Those Ford GT's a beautiful.
Love this... fantastic !
The 1971 Steve McQueen movie le mans is one of the best racing movies ever made , a real early 70s time capsule.
So much better than Le Mans these days!
I 💕💖💞💓💕the Alfa~Romeo Tipo 33-2 longtails.
Thank you, very nice.
Despite regulating Ford's 7 litre engine away to help the European cars, the GT40's still managed to win in ´68 and '69. Seen this great short documentary on the ´68 Le Mans version, I realize why hautain is a French word.
It was a french document for french viewers, what you find "hautain" is what we find "hautain" in a lot of american documents... By the way "generous" and "courteous" are also french words : )
@@YOUENNNN I meant patriotic. Pardon my French....
@@BoudewijnvanHouten No worries, yes it is for sure I had the same feeling
@@YOUENNNN Wish the French were more patriotic these days ;-) but courageous (courage) they still are if you look to all the protests going on. Great that they occupied the BlackRock headquarters in Paris. They seemingly and intuitively know where the suppression comes from. Courage Bleu!
Stfu with the fanboy tears..everyone gets regulated in motorsports.... The 917s would get engine sized capped as well in the following years..... Americans did it too in IMSA and in the Trans Am series with the 911 RSR and the dominating 935 family also to the Nissans in the 80s, and Audi quattro trans am and GTO.......... Oh I also forgot the Americans did too with the 917 in the Can Am series...........
In a few years, all we will hear is the whine of tires and the circulation of electrics. These wonderful machines are about to go away from us.
Don't be so pessimistic.
Alpine and others are developping internal combustion engines that run on hydrogen. Clean but just as loud.
I was a college freshman when this September race was run and I had followed Le Mans for about four years as best as was then possible: via newspapers and magazines often weeks late in the details. And yes, Le Mans was still exotic then. But as is evident nearly everywhere on the circuit, all was deathly dangerous. Workers and police too near or actually on the track. Wrecks here, there, and everywhere. Trees, puddles, humps, and jumps. Speed, oh the speeds, on the long, long un-chicaned Mulsanne Straight. And unlike now, nearly all cars never finished.
In some ways, modern Le Mans, as beloved as it is, has been neutered. Most cars now cross the finish line. Frantic, chaotic, and semi-organized pit work has been streamlined and regulated. And the track is modified and moved to a degree that some parts are hardly recognizable in comparison to decades ago. Nonetheless, this is all for the good in terms of safety and lives of machines, men, and women now too. Still, alas, some die. Re Allan Simonsen in his Aston Martin (2013) at the then archaically designed Tetre Rouge.
PS In response to Gabriel Sandoval's previous comment, despite the style, girls, and cars, the times were frightful in the US. Vietnam. You went. And died.
That's actually surprising. I made a collage-restauration to reconstruct the original version of "La Chanson des Vinght-Quatre Heures" from the 1969 documentary "La Ronde Infernale". Thus thinking that was from, and came out for that (incredible) edition of the 24h. And now, I find it here, in a '68 docu, similar but not exact (even if there's only the instrumental intro part). So then, I really wonder how old it was. Surely is from the 2nd part of 60s, but when exactly was composed for the Greatest Race in the World is still to discover for me. If you know something that I don't please let me know.
Rain, sun, rain, sun. If I am correct only about 20 cars finished. The first visit on my own to the 24 heures du mans. The 'village' was an eye opener to a young man with very French side shows, freaks, strippers et al. Nasty accident near the end with a car on fire.
It seems the Lewis and sainz know this track well . Should be a good race . My boy Max has his hands full , still wouldn't put it past him to win it
imagine what those kiddie race GT 40's are worth today !
cool cars, beautiful cars, fast in a straight line.. but compared to todays racing cars? in terms of grip and cornering speed? night and day.
J'avais pleuré quand la Matra a abandonné 😢😢😢
ja passei o videos 4 vezes e nao vi nem o Christian Bale e nem o Matt Damon.
a resolução desse videos é muito ruim, mas alguém conseguiu encontra-los ?
Ahahaha mt engraçado
No man, this is Le Mans '68 and they were in Le Mans '66 😂😂😂
@@jemsenames5146 faz sentido
At the beginning the commentator stated that one day the Japanese would show up. And how right he was .........
Thank you for up loading. it is very interesting to see 1968. Can you up load Le Mans 1979 if you have any info/source? thank you.
Paul Newman vs. the Whittington brothers...
It's really nice with quality images, but where did you find the original one with the french voice ? Thank you !
The voice over was already in place when I found this footage.
J'ai assisté à cette course, j'avais 9 ans. ça sentait l'huile de ricin, il n'y avait pas de boîtes séquentielles, pas d'électronique, pas de liaison radio entre pilotes et stands, une ligne droite des Hunaudières impressionnante et... des pilotes courageux, talentueux. Sincèrement, chacun pense ce qu'il veut, mais personnellement les 24 h d'aujourd'hui ne présente plus pour moi aucun intérêt! Du jeu vidéo, rien que du jeu vidéo!!!!
And what is a head garsket!?
nice
Tnx 4 the upload!
+1 New Subscriber! :-)
Wow ,no safety at racing in the past. They keep destroyed cars on the track .
A no go in modern times .
Reminds me of the cars from the Speed Racer cartoon.
Sweet
OPの日本人記者、どこのメディアなんだろう🤔？スゴイ気になるなぁ〜🤩！
os carros sem alarme nessa época, com certeza alguém roubava os celulares no estacionamento... é muito carro
✌️🏎️😘
This was when it was championship of makes! Not cookie cutter
the camera is sped up a ridiculous amount
James garner James garner damn it
Ligne droite des hunaudieres et les platanes 😱
❤️💕💕💕
Is this Sim Racing?
👍
✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🎉
3:58 dude
As usual, the Frogs change the rules to give themselves a chance!
This old film clearly demonstrates the amateur and chaotic nature of top flight motorsport before safety became mandatory, odd considering the 1955 tragedy.
I just remember this edition of the 24H took place in September, because France was close to a civil war. We are therefore light years away from these shopkeeper calculations you speak of.
j'aurais préféré sans doublage audio 😑
The same in french please ....
The most famous GT40 ! Chassis#1075
what a farce the FIA was changing the rules to eliminate the fast cars and hoping to let the French have a chance. Sill a 5 year old Ford GT40 took the win. (the exact same car winning the following year as well. First time ever with the exact same car winning twice)
Hey if you can't beat them find a way to disqualify them or simply change the rules to benefit yourselves. What a sham!
The rule change mainly effected Ferrari. Porsche and Ford were benefited from it since they already had engines for 3.0 L prototype and 5.0 L sports car classes respectively.
This was real racing. Not that absurdity called NASCAR LEFT TURNS
What does NASCAR, a series which is adding more and more road courses to the schedule by the way, have to do with this?
Soooo Frenchy had to change the rules to compete rather than build a better car hmmm smh
68 is the year a 67 Ford won. 😂😅🇺🇲
...a "Ford" designed and built in Britain by British engineers and entered in 68 and 69 by a British team, JW Automotive. US engine with British designed and made cyclinder heads. Let's call it an Anglo-American success.
Please do not post any more of these videos,....when I see these types of postings I am essentially handcuffed to my PC for the duration of the video,...
13.37 lap of 205 kph and 207 kph ,think he ment 205 mph lol cause 205 kph is like 125 mph not muchJust wow bare lamp posts lining the straight ,trees ,banks ,ditches ,marshels standing behind a couple of hay bales as cars go past at 180 mph ,couple of fire engines ,cars ahd lotta gas and magnseium parts wow dangerous as
He means average speed when a lap is listed as a speed rather than a time. Nascar and indycar call the lap time this way and so does the isle of man tt.
Its the same thing just a different measurement of it.
This is clearly 1969, not´68! it was the first 24h-Le Mans for the 917s (with movable rear-wings!) which set P1, 2 and 3 in Qualify.
Ignoring the title card, dialogue, and various cars pictured, thus supporting the fact that this is footage from the 1968 Le Mans, I think you may be mistaking the 908s for 917. One of the short comings of the short-lived 907 was the instability at high speeds. Porsche attempted to solve this 907LH issue by adding active aero, which operated via the rear suspension, to the nearly identical 908LH. Being a further development of the 908, the early 917s had similar features, which included similar active, horizontal stabilizing flaps on the rear.
@Norbert Calenborn . . . Bianchi/Rodriguez winning GT40 definitely makes this the 1968 running, as it was the Ickx/Oliver drivers winning it in 1969; as the '69 race was _the closest finish,_ for the winning checkered-flag, in the history of the 24 hour race.
???
No, this is 68, Alpines vs Alfas and no Ferrari works team. There IS an excellent fillum about 1969 on YT, "le Ronde Infernale".
The 'Henry Chicane' was new in 1968 and the same year l'infortuné Monsieur Mairesse had his GT40 bent in Round 1.
Always, over and over, the same problem with most of car racing documentary footage: the annoying voice describing what it's not needed to be described. Just pathetic redundancy.
That's the reason the movie "Le Mans" remains the best. Very limited dialogue, just visual dynamics. The machines are the protagonists.
Porsch AH ffs.
Pourquoi c'est pas en français ?
Y'a un rosbif qui parle par dessus les commentaires de Jacques Perrot🐓😡
While I can't give you a specific reason, the larger answer is possibly because Napoleon had a little-man complex, but most likely due to the outcome of the Seven-Years War.
N r espa
@2:22 Sore losers ... 3,000 cc engines ... just make it a motocycle race ...
The rule change was very bad for Ferrari who had been racing a 4.0 L prototype, but great for Porsche and for Ford who could still race the GT40 with 4.7 L and 5.0 L small block engines.
3 litre just applied to prototype cars.
"Ford chicane" ... knowing the FIA, that has to be a tongue-in-cheek joke at ford's expense.
Joke by theACO. There's also the Porsche curves, and now they have some corners named Corvette, I believe.
To bad Le Mans track has been butchered !
Speeded up film.
Los años 60's fueron para México sin duda los mas brillantes en el deporte internacional... Rafael Osuna gano el unico grand slam para México fue el u.s open en 1963...
Manuel "pulgarcito" Ramos es mexicano que contendio por titulo de peso completo en boxeo...fue contra Joe Frazier,pero perdio.Pedro Rodríguez gana las 24 hs de L'Mans todo en 1968, Raga un básquetbolista fue el primer extranjero que contrato la n.b.a. aunque no quizo ir por jugar lo j.o. de México..Memo Echavarría fue el primer y unico mexicano en obtener un record mundial en natación, creo fueron los 1,500 estilo libre .. México incluso organizo los j.olimpicos y quedo en 15vo lugar con 12 medallas y asi recuerdo otrros logros ..
Juanito Martinez en atletismo Yola Ramírez en tenis ,Ruben Amaro gano el guante de oro en ligas mayores y después les pasó otros logros que hoy no los tenemos.
Great but I hate overdubs