@@antsfur I think the best place to experience the Mazda was at the esses after the Dunlop bridge (pre chicane going up to Dunlop), you could hear them wailing up the hill and over the crest, then as they braked into the esses the wild screaming noise of them as they changed down a couple of cogs, heel and toeing to match revs was just outlandish and like nothing else I've ever heard! Frankly I think they wrecked that section of the track when they re-profiled it, they also lost a section of bank to watch them come down the hill and through the esses...
I was at there at the same spot too, way back in 1984. My first Le Mans. Fantastic!! I will never ever forget that beautiful sound and the sight of disappearing Porsche 956's at almost 250 mph...
On the inside of Mulsanne corner there where still parts of the old signalling pits and the fence where wooden poles with some wire at 3 meters from the track in '88. And... no corners on the Mulsanne straight. Cars where doing 400 kph+ (250 mph+) with the closed rear wheel arches. Even in the rain....
I remember going to an IndyCar race at the old Phoenix layout, the short oval, and holy fucking god that was insanity. I was an adrenaline junky kid. My grandpa was air force and I have pictures of me laying for a nap age 6 or 7 in the baffles of an F-16. Didn’t concern me much. But that race. Phew. Spooked me for sure. So loud. So, so fast. There was a wreck on turn 2 right by our seats and I remember watching a front wheel, knuckle and all, bounce off the top of the fence. It kept going and landed somewhere in the stands, nobody’s as sitting there. Didn’t click until I was older that I almost got final destination’ed🤣
Before the chicanes were added the Mulsanne was one of the most magical places on the planet, especially in the dark. Truly awesome....thanks for the memory.
@@DonLee1980 For spectators it was unbelievable. Drivers got a brief respite from cornering forces but more significantly it meant the cars had to be designed for straight line speed as well as corners so there was less aero downforce in the twisty stuff like Indianapolis-Arnage, Esses etc. So overall better racing. The speeds are comparable these days even with the chicanes but the aero is better so overtaking is a lot tougher.
@@peterrenn6341 Le Mans is already mostly straights and barely any corners. 2km straight after another 2km straight after another 2km straight. GTE cars already have their lowest amount of downforce possible and hit 300kph in race, way higher than any other track. If you want a race without corners, go watch indy cars in a big oval.
Every now and then i come back to this video, this gem !!! You can't even put in words how amazing must have been to just sit there and listen and see these monsters passing by at 400kph. Hands down, this is the best, the most original and sound-gasmic video.
Sadly, The straight at Mulsanne has been broken up. The cars were hitting over 250 MPH. I remember listening to them in the distance at the 72 race. AWESOME ! ! !
The shriek and howl of the engines makes the hair on my arms stand up. The sound is fantastic. Imagine 3. 7 miles with your foot flat to the floor. Absolutely fantastic.
From what I heard from the Porsche 917 driver Derek Bell, the drivers for that particular race car were cautioned to keep the rpms down below (from what I can recall) 9,000 so the engine would not explode, so there was some restraint needed along that straight. But with later technology with rpm governors, I can see where drivers would keep it floored.
Considering its 1988 and video tape recording the picture qualities are actually quite good considering the years in between then and now. Your too used to digital HD movie quality.😊
The sight and sound of man and machine ripping holes in the air at over 230mph on the Mulsanne is one of my earliest memories of overwhelming excitement and fear as a child. I cannot explain how 50+ years later how watching TV coverage of the Le Mans 24H and the Mulsanne in particular still strikes me until I cry. To see men putting their life on the line in a super advanced racing car that can kill you with 1 false move seems quite absurd and pathetic, but unbelievably brave, glorious and heroic at the same time. 10 years ago I even cancelled a visit to Le Mans as I thought my family would wonder why I would be crying watching my favourite sports car event 😂😂 There is a psychological message or metaphor for life in their somewhere and I have not yet unravelled it.
1989 was the year Mercedes returned with the famous Sauber C9 group C prototypes in silver livery and triumphed at Le Mans after messing things up in 1988 (they were in black livery in the above vid). I would’ve sold 1 of my kidneys to see and hear them tear along the Mulsanne at maximum speed to victory in 1989 😂
WOW!! this is one of , if not the best moment i´ve hade in watching motorsport. I was there on that spot the year before. At late saturday afternoon going towards evening and finaly night, You saw a smal dot of light and than 5 sec. later it passed you with an enormous roar/scream which turned in to an beautiful song that sang out in the French night together with small birds. And the Gendarmerie was eating and drinking wine and having a great time as all the rest of us . What great memories!! Thanks !
And we young people gonna enjoy the muffled v6 turbo hybrids and 4zylinders hybrids and electroscooters... Yayyy... I need to go asap to a group c historical race to hear real engines.
It’s really impossible to try to convey to the uninitiated the magic of seeing a racecar in person, but this is certainly a good starting point. Goosebumps. Thanks for the re-post.
Yeah, exactly this. I was standing by the back straight at Road Atlanta in the late 1980s when GTP practice started (I think Friday afternoon?) and I couldn't believe it. Also being at a CART race in Vancouver in 1993 and even just standing near a temporary wall with the circuit on the other side there was a tremendous violence to the cars passing by.
The chicanes destroyed the magic of this place. I know it became to dangerous but the 5 kilometers of mulsanne and the kink were a distinctive unique feature of the track.
I agree the chicanes are unnecessary, but it really wasn't that it became too dangerous, the FIA just put in a max straight length into the rules. The cars more or less would settle on a max top speed of probably ~240mph, however to increase speed power has to increase as the cube of the speed, to improve down force and go round corners quicker the power required increases as the square of the speed. So at some point it is better to spend the engine power budget to increase down force and go round corners much quicker and down the straight a little slower. We'd already pretty much got there when they introduced the chicanes, that just pushed it more towards increased corner speeds as you weren't using all your mulsanne power budget for speed! It was a shame as the drivers said that they got to relax a bit and check gauges etc. going down the whole of the Mulsanne straight.
@@dennismichealsm3786 No. I wrote that I know that it became too dangerous. It also would make no sense to have such a long straight since modern race cars gain time in corners and not on straight like in the 60s,70s and partly in the 80s
@@dennismichealsm3786 They used to hit about ~240-250mph at the end of the straight, but still hit ~205-210 mph before each chicane. The drivers no longer get enough time on the straight to "relax" a bit and check the gauges etc, as they used to be able to do. They also see a lot more lateral G due to increasing down force & going faster through corners is now the way to minimise lap time... As for danger, the Mulsanne hump was really more of a danger than the top speed. Remember the flipping Mercedes? They ran after the chicanes were introduced!
@@sgtmiklin I attended the 1989 Lemans 24 Hours. Jaguar did not win. Sauber Mercedes dominated and finished 1-2. Jaguar could only manage 4th...nine laps behind the winner.
@@gimmeshelter1969 Jaguar have won LM 7 times, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 88 and 90. I'm actually otebbutt1290 under a new account, and can confirm that even 8 years on the noise of that Jag V12 brings me to my knees..
Imagine you're a bloke that owns a house in 1988 near Circuit Le Mans 24 Heures and you just read the newspaper that a 24 Group C Race will Be Starting in there. No sleep, No Silence, just pure Craziness of those Beautiful Loud Engines. Those Engines are YOUR Alarm that rings every single Minute or 2. I wanna go back in time 😭
They’re been running this race since 1923 it would hardly come as a surprise. Locals who live on the Circuit (most of the Mulsanne is a public road the rest of the year) either have a party or rent their places out and make a fortune
No lie- You’d be amazed at how well you can sleep to 24 hours footage playing on earbuds. I think for me, it’s a pure and positive environment, free of any frivolous anything. Something subconsciously must account for that…and allows me to sleep. It’s great.
Just about the closest thing to being there! Not much gets the old feeling going these days, but this 4 minutes and 47 seconds definitely DOES! Thank you for filming and thank you for uploading🙏
Wish we could fire the bs govt officials and get racing back too its ppl and what it was truely about. May have to go thro new drivers too that arent up to it..but there will be plenty of those too.
Ça ressemble aux hunaudieres avant Mulsanne, j y étais en 89, les Sauber passaient à plus de 400 kmh, c est bien ce bruit en pleine charge, extraordinaire, fascinant, envoûtant, je suis admiratif
One of the most spectacular vids regarding speed at Le Mans. The sound of that Mazda and Jaguar are amazing. Speed differences between cars are huge. Great!! Thanks for posting!!!
I'm pretty sure I've commented on this video before but as someone else said, this is a video I keep coming back to. It is just goosebump inducing every time. You have captured something magical here, the sound of the engine's screaming past and echoing into the distance sets alight every feeling and dream I ever had about racing since I was a kid. If you have more footage from the weekend I (and I'm sure many others) would love to see it if at all possible. Or even just to know if you have more footage? Regardless, thank you for uploading this. It's a delight to view and hear.
I know it's probably due to the equipment used, age of the original etc but I love the howl you get after those two 50-60 seconds in (and others later). It's like guitar feedback
probably the best le mans video on youtube. This captures the atmosphere of the remote and dangerous Mulsanne Straight: a strange tranquility punctuated by insane noise
I was there, just a bit further before right bend, thanks to kindness of a lady, owner of a property along the mulsanne straight, watching cars passing by at 230/240 mph....
Awesome , any human not in awe of this has no soul . Only been lucky enough to see a few at goodwood . and a 917 on cold start stood right behind the exhaust ❤, super rich and the fumes made my eyes water . Was fortunate enough to see the last of the group B rally cars on a night stage at I think Chatsworth or Clumber Park . Memories like these , priceless!! Thanks for making this footage available 👍🇬🇧
You can still infiltrate through the forests and other security hoops. Videos taken during day and night time show up each year. I'm not sure this was an officially allowed spectating spot in the 80s either.
At 0:52 a car passes,14 seconds later you can still hear it when(@ 230mph)the car is 0.9 of a mile away.But as the sound takes 4 seconds to reach the camera from that distance, the car was only 0.64 of amile away when it went out of ear shot.(needs said)
Brilliant! Taken from near my favourite spot, just alongside what is now the O' 24 Heures, between the Auberge des Hunaudieres & the Restaurant des Hunaudieres. This was an excellent place to be able to watch the action, shame they block it off now. I have great memories, & photos to prove it, of the Jags and Mazda 787B hammering along the straight in '91, the year the Mazda won it all. In fact I fancy I hear a couple of Mazda 767's coming past, hard to spot though as they were mostly white & the resolution is poor.
Viewing this video and seeing what it was like, and hearing those sounds, to be at that place, at that time, at that event. What a treasure. Thanks for posting.
If I remember correctly, after Le Mans 1988 they made the two chicanes at the hunaudiere straight - because Peugeot reached there the fastest speed ever in a circuit race: 408 km/h!!!
@@mortenfrosthansen84 yes, it was a Peugeot. Specifically the WM88 Peugeot. They "officially recognized" speed was 405 kph but that's because Peugeot was releasing its new 405 series car. The actual top speed measured by the official ACO radar was 408kph... And the WM87, which was the 1987 version of the car, hit 416kph in a practice session but it was not officially recognized because it didn't happen in an official event. The fastest race car in history, and still the record holder is a Peugeot. A Peugeot with the same engine as a minivan, just tuned to produce 900+hp.
THANKYOU so much for uploading this rare video which shows the soul of racing back in the times money was not everything !! This is THE BEST VIDEO of racing I ever saw ! Unfortunatly I never saw this cars racing (because I´m too young) but I love them. And please, FIA and ACO, ban the LMPs and put Group C back - this were the best cars ever !
Amazing video thanks for uploading, after having attended several WEC rounds at Silverstone since 2008, perhaps the Lola Aston DBR1-2 is the only modern prototype that comes close to capturing the essence of the Group C monsters. The XJR-9 is in a league of its own however, brutally magnificent...
@@dennismichealsm3786 Too stupid I hate the chicanes I understand it’s safer but imagine blasting down the mulsanne in a miser lmp1 car with no chicanes
hear the birds chirping away! it always amazes me when I am at the 24hr of Le Mans... Nature just seems to carry on, even if a Panoz LMP1 or Mazda 787H would pass...
In 1986 I drove down The Mulsanne straight and it’s not straight Afterwards I stopped in Mulsanne it’s self for food ...No chicanes then on the straight .........
Even as recently as 1988, if you had predicted to those trackside that one day a diesel-powered car would win Le Mans they would have laughed you right off the circuit.
The sound never leaves you once you’ve been. I first went in 95 and headed the scream from the F1 at full chat on the mulsanne straight albeit with the added chicanes in. Le Mans eclipses all else in motorsport world.
J'y étais, et même pas loin de la caméra, en fait j'étais plus loin dans la cour d'une grande maison, dont sa propriétaire nous avait gentiment accordé l'accès, on était deux ou trois cent mètres avant le droite...fabuleux !!! merci pour le film !!!
It's very deceiving; it almost looks like they're only doing about highway speed here. But in the 60s they were already touching on 180 mph along the Mulsanne straight! Le Mans & the Isle of Man TT are fabulous reminders of what motor sports should be!!
I read somewhere, there's a restaurant towards the end of the Mulsanne straight that you can have a midnight dinner, outdoors (that's being a fan). ;-) They call that the "Doppler Effect". Kewl, this was filmed before the "curves" were added.
You took the words right out of my mouth! Respect to you sir. Motorsport is getting worse by the minute - less power, boring-looking cars, the diesels, too many rules... you get the picture. One day I will lose interest completely and turn to football or something, lol. Basically, these were some of the best days of racing and it's not something we will get back.
Okay since everyone is hypnotised by the streophonic affect of this video there is something you, still with record players, will want to get. Riverside(record company) made records of cars at Sebring 12-hrs from 1956-1960. Complete orgasmic ear candy if you are lucky enough to find a copy. They can be pricey.
didn't know porn was allowed on youtube
ikr
Tell me about it, mate. I've just had a "sex wee." 😉
Lmao epic comment 😅
a total mystery why Stefanos struggles with women isn't it.
crazy or demential race?
The menacing sound of those engines screaming down that strait, is intoxicating.
And then wailing off into the distance.
I mean, never before had there been such an amalgamation of spent hydrocarbons and sound....
For 24 Hours
I was there about the time this was filmed the worst offender was the Mazdas rotary engine!
@@antsfur I think the best place to experience the Mazda was at the esses after the Dunlop bridge (pre chicane going up to Dunlop), you could hear them wailing up the hill and over the crest, then as they braked into the esses the wild screaming noise of them as they changed down a couple of cogs, heel and toeing to match revs was just outlandish and like nothing else I've ever heard! Frankly I think they wrecked that section of the track when they re-profiled it, they also lost a section of bank to watch them come down the hill and through the esses...
Awesome. Actually I was there in 1988, on the same spot. I will never forget it.
Likewise....I was at that spot around Saturday midnight. It was the last time I ever saw Mulsanne without the chicanes.
lucky men
What car came after the Mazda around the 40 sec mark thank. I think it was the jaguar.
I was at there at the same spot too, way back in 1984. My first Le Mans. Fantastic!! I will never ever forget that beautiful sound and the sight of disappearing Porsche 956's at almost 250 mph...
Lucky beyond measure 🍀
Beside all the "noise", the birds stil sing.
even the birds were louder...
Birds love races of groupe C cars....
Those are House Sparrows. Trash birds that live close to humans.
Each car had its own soundtrack, each soundtrack was comprised of different harmonies. This is the best kind of music.
I miss the days when you could walk right up to the guardrail at racetracks like that. That's how Sebring was when I was a kid.
On the inside of Mulsanne corner there where still parts of the old signalling pits and the fence where wooden poles with some wire at 3 meters from the track in '88. And... no corners on the Mulsanne straight. Cars where doing 400 kph+ (250 mph+) with the closed rear wheel arches. Even in the rain....
My brother and I would stand inside the 2 ft guard rail exiting turn 9 at Riverside, one day Paul Newman thru is out!
I remember going to an IndyCar race at the old Phoenix layout, the short oval, and holy fucking god that was insanity.
I was an adrenaline junky kid. My grandpa was air force and I have pictures of me laying for a nap age 6 or 7 in the baffles of an F-16. Didn’t concern me much.
But that race. Phew. Spooked me for sure. So loud. So, so fast. There was a wreck on turn 2 right by our seats and I remember watching a front wheel, knuckle and all, bounce off the top of the fence. It kept going and landed somewhere in the stands, nobody’s as sitting there.
Didn’t click until I was older that I almost got final destination’ed🤣
Yeah if you want to be decapitated by flying debris
You still can just gotta volunteer 😂
Before the chicanes were added the Mulsanne was one of the most magical places on the planet, especially in the dark. Truly awesome....thanks for the memory.
Because a 6km straight is just such a great thing to race on...
@@DonLee1980 it is, and you clearly are an idiot
@@DonLee1980 For spectators it was unbelievable. Drivers got a brief respite from cornering forces but more significantly it meant the cars had to be designed for straight line speed as well as corners so there was less aero downforce in the twisty stuff like Indianapolis-Arnage, Esses etc. So overall better racing. The speeds are comparable these days even with the chicanes but the aero is better so overtaking is a lot tougher.
Amazing
@@peterrenn6341 Le Mans is already mostly straights and barely any corners. 2km straight after another 2km straight after another 2km straight. GTE cars already have their lowest amount of downforce possible and hit 300kph in race, way higher than any other track. If you want a race without corners, go watch indy cars in a big oval.
Every now and then i come back to this video, this gem !!!
You can't even put in words how amazing must have been to just sit there and listen and see these monsters passing by at 400kph.
Hands down, this is the best, the most original and sound-gasmic video.
Thank U
@@Dimix85 No, thank you sir !!
Sound gasmic 😄😄
Sadly, The straight at Mulsanne has been broken up. The cars were hitting over 250 MPH. I remember listening to them in the distance at the 72 race. AWESOME ! ! !
This is possibly the most magical video on UA-cam.👌👌👌
The shriek and howl of the engines makes the hair on my arms stand up. The sound is fantastic. Imagine 3. 7 miles with your foot flat to the floor. Absolutely fantastic.
From what I heard from the Porsche 917 driver Derek Bell, the drivers for that particular race car were cautioned to keep the rpms down below (from what I can recall) 9,000 so the engine would not explode, so there was some restraint needed along that straight.
But with later technology with rpm governors, I can see where drivers would keep it floored.
@@bloqk16 Would love to hear a Porsche 917 running in top gear at 9,000 rpms done the old Mulsanne Straight.
Those drivers were not men. They were gods.
Thanks for posting this. Those are amazing sounds, and even though the video quality is quite poor, it somehow adds to the glory of those days.
I agrée 👌
Considering its 1988 and video tape recording the picture qualities are actually quite good considering the years in between then and now. Your too used to digital HD movie quality.😊
@@timexironman100m I’m 59 years old… I can still remember the quality of videos and cameras from the 80s! 😊
In my recommended 9 years too late.
I never realized I was missing out on heaven itself.
Damn cars sound like Stuka dive sirens
I was there! The 1980s was the absolute pinnacle for motor racing, especially Le Mans!
The sight and sound of man and machine ripping holes in the air at over 230mph on the Mulsanne is one of my earliest memories of overwhelming excitement and fear as a child. I cannot explain how 50+ years later how watching TV coverage of the Le Mans 24H and the Mulsanne in particular still strikes me until I cry. To see men putting their life on the line in a super advanced racing car that can kill you with 1 false move seems quite absurd and pathetic, but unbelievably brave, glorious and heroic at the same time. 10 years ago I even cancelled a visit to Le Mans as I thought my family would wonder why I would be crying watching my favourite sports car event 😂😂 There is a psychological message or metaphor for life in their somewhere and I have not yet unravelled it.
Brilliantly stated... I'm sure many of us feel the same way 😂🖐✌✊
Yes, I know I do❤.Stirs the soul.
I stood at this very spot in 1989, the first year I went to Le Mans. It absolutely blew my mind. Incredible memory. Thanks so much for uploading.
1989 was the year Mercedes returned with the famous Sauber C9 group C prototypes in silver livery and triumphed at Le Mans after messing things up in 1988 (they were in black livery in the above vid). I would’ve sold 1 of my kidneys to see and hear them tear along the Mulsanne at maximum speed to victory in 1989 😂
WOW!! this is one of , if not the best moment i´ve hade in watching motorsport. I was there on that spot the year before. At late saturday afternoon going towards evening and finaly night, You saw a smal dot of light and than 5 sec. later it passed you with an enormous roar/scream which turned in to an beautiful song that sang out in the French night together with small birds. And the Gendarmerie was eating and drinking wine and having a great time as all the rest of us . What great memories!! Thanks !
Thank you, good citizen!
That is a wonderful picture that you paint with your words. Bravo mon ami
And we young people gonna enjoy the muffled v6 turbo hybrids and 4zylinders hybrids and electroscooters... Yayyy...
I need to go asap to a group c historical race to hear real engines.
It’s really impossible to try to convey to the uninitiated the magic of seeing a racecar in person, but this is certainly a good starting point. Goosebumps. Thanks for the re-post.
Yeah, exactly this. I was standing by the back straight at Road Atlanta in the late 1980s when GTP practice started (I think Friday afternoon?) and I couldn't believe it. Also being at a CART race in Vancouver in 1993 and even just standing near a temporary wall with the circuit on the other side there was a tremendous violence to the cars passing by.
this is it,THIS IS IT
The chicanes destroyed the magic of this place. I know it became to dangerous but the 5
kilometers of mulsanne and the kink were a distinctive unique feature of the track.
They needed to keep the strait and limit the top speeds with the rules.
I agree the chicanes are unnecessary, but it really wasn't that it became too dangerous, the FIA just put in a max straight length into the rules.
The cars more or less would settle on a max top speed of probably ~240mph, however to increase speed power has to increase as the cube of the speed, to improve down force and go round corners quicker the power required increases as the square of the speed.
So at some point it is better to spend the engine power budget to increase down force and go round corners much quicker and down the straight a little slower.
We'd already pretty much got there when they introduced the chicanes, that just pushed it more towards increased corner speeds as you weren't using all your mulsanne power budget for speed!
It was a shame as the drivers said that they got to relax a bit and check gauges etc. going down the whole of the Mulsanne straight.
You want people to die? A 200mph crash is no joke and some of the cars used to to go beyond that mark
@@dennismichealsm3786
No. I wrote that I know that it became too dangerous.
It also would make no sense to have such a long straight since modern race cars gain time in corners and not on straight like in the 60s,70s and partly in the 80s
@@dennismichealsm3786 They used to hit about ~240-250mph at the end of the straight, but still hit ~205-210 mph before each chicane. The drivers no longer get enough time on the straight to "relax" a bit and check the gauges etc, as they used to be able to do. They also see a lot more lateral G due to increasing down force & going faster through corners is now the way to minimise lap time...
As for danger, the Mulsanne hump was really more of a danger than the top speed. Remember the flipping Mercedes? They ran after the chicanes were introduced!
'How are you feeling, Michael?'
'Knees are sore'
'I want you to replace Ritter. He's not quick enough'
A wonderful film clip of Le Mans! Those cars had such a distinctive individual sounds. Thank you for sharing this time capsule!
The sound of those rotary cars is just peak
That V12 Jag at the beginning, incredible
Thanks for confirming; as I recall they won in 1988.
In 1989 too.....
@@sgtmiklin I attended the 1989 Lemans 24 Hours. Jaguar did not win. Sauber Mercedes dominated and finished 1-2. Jaguar could only manage 4th...nine laps behind the winner.
@@gimmeshelter1969 je me suis trompé d'une année 🤔😉😁
@@gimmeshelter1969 Jaguar have won LM 7 times, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 88 and 90. I'm actually otebbutt1290 under a new account, and can confirm that even 8 years on the noise of that Jag V12 brings me to my knees..
Imagine you're a bloke that owns a house in 1988 near Circuit Le Mans 24 Heures and you just read the newspaper that a 24 Group C Race will Be Starting in there. No sleep, No Silence, just pure Craziness of those Beautiful Loud Engines. Those Engines are YOUR Alarm that rings every single Minute or 2.
I wanna go back in time 😭
Don't we all
They’re been running this race since 1923 it would hardly come as a surprise. Locals who live on the Circuit (most of the Mulsanne is a public road the rest of the year) either have a party or rent their places out and make a fortune
No lie- You’d be amazed at how well you can sleep to 24 hours footage playing on earbuds. I think for me, it’s a pure and positive environment, free of any frivolous anything. Something subconsciously must account for that…and allows me to sleep. It’s great.
@@snail415yes I do this too, I just wack the huayra r overnight and I fall to sleep like a baby
Just about the closest thing to being there! Not much gets the old feeling going these days, but this 4 minutes and 47 seconds definitely DOES! Thank you for filming and thank you for uploading🙏
Ah, the golden years of raw real racing!
Wish we could fire the bs govt officials and get racing back too its ppl and what it was truely about. May have to go thro new drivers too that arent up to it..but there will be plenty of those too.
0:50 is the best.
25 years ago already! Wish I had followed sports cars back then, this stuff is freaking awesome!
if it will ever be possible , so let me know) I depart there too
35 years now and its still just as magical! 😃
@@Dieselkraftwerk yes it is! 🙌
Ça ressemble aux hunaudieres avant Mulsanne, j y étais en 89, les Sauber passaient à plus de 400 kmh, c est bien ce bruit en pleine charge, extraordinaire, fascinant, envoûtant, je suis admiratif
C'est tres sensatinal😅
One of the most spectacular vids regarding speed at Le Mans. The sound of that Mazda and Jaguar are amazing. Speed differences between cars are huge. Great!! Thanks for posting!!!
I'm pretty sure I've commented on this video before but as someone else said, this is a video I keep coming back to. It is just goosebump inducing every time.
You have captured something magical here, the sound of the engine's screaming past and echoing into the distance sets alight every feeling and dream I ever had about racing since I was a kid.
If you have more footage from the weekend I (and I'm sure many others) would love to see it if at all possible. Or even just to know if you have more footage?
Regardless, thank you for uploading this. It's a delight to view and hear.
No, im sorry
Thank you Sir for this upload, absolute goosebumps
I know it's probably due to the equipment used, age of the original etc but I love the howl you get after those two 50-60 seconds in (and others later). It's like guitar feedback
Jaguars V-12s, Mazda 767 are screamers. Always love that sound
probably the best le mans video on youtube. This captures the atmosphere of the remote and dangerous Mulsanne Straight: a strange tranquility punctuated by insane noise
The sound of racing car at full song, sublime.
0:51, 2:17,4:33 4 Doritos engine right there.
0:24(the video cut out),3:14 and this one are 3 Doritos engine.
Like an F1!
Maaaaaaan the good old days!
this my friends was Motosport!!!!!!!
The good old days - when racing was for moustached men with chest hair in it for the glory. Fantastic video.
I was there, just a bit further before right bend, thanks to kindness of a lady, owner of a property along the mulsanne straight, watching cars passing by at 230/240 mph....
Awesome , any human not in awe of this has no soul . Only been lucky enough to see a few at goodwood . and a 917 on cold start stood right behind the exhaust ❤, super rich and the fumes made my eyes water .
Was fortunate enough to see the last of the group B rally cars on a night stage at I think Chatsworth or Clumber Park . Memories like these , priceless!!
Thanks for making this footage available 👍🇬🇧
The World will never ever allow human beings to to stand *that close* to automobiles going *that fast* again....Great times those were!
You can still infiltrate through the forests and other security hoops. Videos taken during day and night time show up each year. I'm not sure this was an officially allowed spectating spot in the 80s either.
That's my video, I remember filming that morning, it was a little cold but we didn't care. Nices times
At 0:52 a car passes,14 seconds later you can still hear it when(@ 230mph)the car is 0.9 of a mile away.But as the sound takes 4 seconds to reach the camera from that distance, the car was only 0.64 of amile away when it went out of ear shot.(needs said)
Brilliant! Taken from near my favourite spot, just alongside what is now the O' 24 Heures, between the Auberge des Hunaudieres & the Restaurant des Hunaudieres.
This was an excellent place to be able to watch the action, shame they block it off now. I have great memories, & photos to prove it, of the Jags and Mazda 787B hammering along the straight in '91, the year the Mazda won it all.
In fact I fancy I hear a couple of Mazda 767's coming past, hard to spot though as they were mostly white & the resolution is poor.
Viewing this video and seeing what it was like, and hearing those sounds, to be at that place, at that time, at that event. What a treasure. Thanks for posting.
I was there for the great 1969 race. The speed and sound as the cars go down Mulsanne is really awesome.
If I remember correctly, after Le Mans 1988 they made the two chicanes at the hunaudiere straight - because Peugeot reached there the fastest speed ever in a circuit race: 408 km/h!!!
no after 1989. first time with chicanes in 1990
Thank you!
Not a Peugeot
@@mortenfrosthansen84 peugeot backed a little to those 2 guys who tried that crazy objetive
@@mortenfrosthansen84 yes, it was a Peugeot.
Specifically the WM88 Peugeot.
They "officially recognized" speed was 405 kph but that's because Peugeot was releasing its new 405 series car. The actual top speed measured by the official ACO radar was 408kph... And the WM87, which was the 1987 version of the car, hit 416kph in a practice session but it was not officially recognized because it didn't happen in an official event.
The fastest race car in history, and still the record holder is a Peugeot.
A Peugeot with the same engine as a minivan, just tuned to produce 900+hp.
2:57 gave me goosebumps...
THANKYOU so much for uploading this rare video which shows the soul of racing back in the times money was not everything !!
This is THE BEST VIDEO of racing I ever saw !
Unfortunatly I never saw this cars racing (because I´m too young) but I love them.
And please, FIA and ACO, ban the LMPs and put Group C back - this were the best cars ever !
Amazing video thanks for uploading, after having attended several WEC rounds at Silverstone since 2008, perhaps the Lola Aston DBR1-2 is the only modern prototype that comes close to capturing the essence of the Group C monsters. The XJR-9 is in a league of its own however, brutally magnificent...
Dear god does this ever sound good. I sincerely thank you for this from the bottom of my heart.
Music to my ears!
The analogue audio clipping just drives the sheer awesomeness home
My goodness, that sounds fantastic!
Never again 😭
The screeching, howl of those motors at top speed.....does crazy things to you.
Thank you so much for re uploading this. One of my fans!
Epic video. Thank you for sharing. God to go back in time….
Awesome video, it really captures the essence of speed. I wish they would ditch those silly chicanes
yea remeber when the record was set as 400 kph
Too dangerous
@@dennismichealsm3786 Too stupid I hate the chicanes I understand it’s safer but imagine blasting down the mulsanne in a miser lmp1 car with no chicanes
@@willbarry7183 yea it's not a problem for the lmp1 lmp2 cars ..it's for the GT cars
@@dennismichealsm3786 Well... ban the gt cars!!! :-)
Thank goodness someone had the foresight to record this for posterity.
The person in that house gets no sleep one night a year
I want a cigarette after that.
ACO : No one has went faster than 240MPH down thee Mulsanne
Peugot : *Hold my beer.*
hear the birds chirping away! it always amazes me when I am at the 24hr of Le Mans... Nature just seems to carry on, even if a Panoz LMP1 or Mazda 787H would pass...
I really wish they still ran the Mulsanne straight again. The 1950s-1980s were special for the automotive world.
Those glorious days will never come back I´m afraid. Thanks for sharing!
Les 24 heures du Mans 1988 un très grand cru.J'y étais .
Merveilleuses musiques ça fait du bonheur dans mes oreilles
God bless you man, hugs from Brazil
God bless everyone 😃
In 1986 I drove down The Mulsanne straight and it’s not straight Afterwards I stopped in Mulsanne it’s self for food ...No chicanes then on the straight .........
oh to have been born in time to see this. beautiful.
Good night's rest for that house across the road?
Sounds amazing, better than today's diesels!
Even as recently as 1988, if you had predicted to those trackside that one day a diesel-powered car would win Le Mans they would have laughed you right off the circuit.
Yes that is fact
Nothing else like it. Music to the ears!
This is Le Mans
This might be the best motor sport video on UA-cam full stop!
It's good to see insp. Clouseau out enjoying a race day!
The sound never leaves you once you’ve been. I first went in 95 and headed the scream from the F1 at full chat on the mulsanne straight albeit with the added chicanes in. Le Mans eclipses all else in motorsport world.
Sorry to double comment, but I had to laugh at the birds chirping in the background - normally that's associated with quiet surroundings!
J'y étais, et même pas loin de la caméra, en fait j'étais plus loin dans la cour d'une grande maison, dont sa propriétaire nous avait gentiment accordé l'accès, on était deux ou trois cent mètres avant le droite...fabuleux !!! merci pour le film !!!
80's golden age of motorsport...
Thanks for the upload!!
Back when sports cars ran F1 engines
It's very deceiving; it almost looks like they're only doing about highway speed here. But in the 60s they were already touching on 180 mph along the Mulsanne straight! Le Mans & the Isle of Man TT are fabulous reminders of what motor sports should be!!
0:50 chills me today
I think it's the Mazda 767 the best sounding one on there..probably going around 220 230 mph
All one would need is a folding chair, a beverage, and some earplugs. I could sit there for hours and listen to the barely muted symphony.
I read somewhere, there's a restaurant towards the end of the Mulsanne straight that you can have a midnight dinner, outdoors (that's being a fan). ;-)
They call that the "Doppler Effect".
Kewl, this was filmed before the "curves" were added.
I always remember having crepes with Grand Marnier at midnight inside the circuit at this very race!
You took the words right out of my mouth! Respect to you sir. Motorsport is getting worse by the minute - less power, boring-looking cars, the diesels, too many rules... you get the picture. One day I will lose interest completely and turn to football or something, lol. Basically, these were some of the best days of racing and it's not something we will get back.
My right ear absolutely loved this.
This is the Metal era of racing.. must’ve been like watching medieval battle with King Arthur in a Jaguar wielding Excalibur!
You don't know how I miss these days....
I am now deaf in my right ear.
I was there, 10 years old, awesome experience!
Okay since everyone is hypnotised by the streophonic affect of this video there is something you, still with record players, will want to get. Riverside(record company) made records of cars at Sebring 12-hrs from 1956-1960. Complete orgasmic ear candy if you are lucky enough to find a copy. They can be pricey.
my left ear enjoyed this video
Beautiful