Also I want to point out that Paul Newman's effort at LeMans was entirely due to Rolf Stommelen. He had the race of his life and almost won it single handed. The man was one of motor racing's best talents and tragically was killed in an avoidable accident at the Riverside in 1983. R.I.P Rolf. You're greatly missed. :)
Ford wouldn't have been able to win without Carroll Shelby, who's name is missing from this video. It was Shelby's car (Cobra Daytona Coupe) that first knocked Ferrari out of his winning streak, not Ford. Otherwise a very information documentary.
That long straight at the end gives you plenty of time to think about a mechanical failure at 240+ mph. If a bird flys up and hits you in the face shield you're probably toast. There are so many things that can go wrong, and the straight is so long. It takes a lot of courage to run that hard for that long. And add pitch black night to the equation, man I like to race, but not that much.
SingleTurboSupra What's so fun about such a long straight? I appreciate a good drag race but Mulsanne was silly. Also, we went from ONE overtaking opportunity to THREE in the same area!
***** Well yea but it was much more characteristic, than two micky-mouse chicanes cutting the straight. Imo it was much more awesome to see cars hitting 400 km/h. And tbh the Le Mans isn't really the best race if you want to see actual racing. It's more about the endurance. You win races by overtaking less efficient cars when they are pitting or when they are having a problem in their car. Not really that much wheel-to-wheel racing. Maybe a little with GT cars, but not with prototypes.
This race has to be the only truly glamorous Motorsport event that continues to this day, since F1 lost its glamour upon the oil crisis, and WRC is not popular enough. NASCAR? same reason.
LOL..Actually,3 times...I was mistaken..Long time ago and I was Young..NART Ferrari 365GTB,Toad Hall Porsche 911RSR,and Interscope Racing Porsche 935K..
rockzs74r Yeah don't forget the Germans too. 12 world champions achieved just by 3 drivers, 7 constructor title only by Mercedes. Schumacher holds the records for the most World Championship titles (7), the most Grand Prix wins (91), the most fastest laps (77) and the most races won in a single season (13).
I still believe the dangerous, often deadly cars from the 60s and 60s were the most beautiful. The one car I would love to own is the 1962 Ferrari Dino 246SP. I don't know why but that car makes me weak in the knees...
The first 30 seconds were great: no background music. Then it began, covering what is being said. Why so loud for F*** sake?. When will producers make up their minds: video clip or documentary?
for the record, levet in a mercedes, was pushed into macklin by mike hawthorne driving a jaguar,...who won and celebrated very arrogantly...hawthorne died on an english road a few years later, trying to overtake a mercedes ironically.
I can't see any of those firms wanting to run diesels, which you need to do to win (at least, until the diesel/gasoline conversion factors become fairer). Plus those companies are too busy with F1. Audi and Peugeot would probably prefer to be in F1 tha LM from a marketing perspective.
Their marketing perspective = diesel. And they can't use that anywhere else. Btw, Peugeot withdrew in January 2012 due the economics, was 'replaced' by Toyota last year (Toyota don't actually use diesel).
You don't need to run diesels. Toyota won three races with a petrol powered hybrid last year. The key is that Audi and Peugeot were spending the same amount as a small F1 team to compete against each other. It's something the other manufacturers can't afford to do while racing in F1, so they put their efforts into the GT categories.
Thank you for uploading, le mans is unique - greatest race ever was 69, Jacky Icks startet as a protest as last driver in the field and finished 2 seconds is a 24 hours race for Hans Hermann
Sadly nascar and F1 have both lost the true race experience, it seems like the only true races anymore where car and driver give it everything they have are street races, they are dangerous and a bunch of ego racers but their are also true drivers who want to break their own records and get excited when they lose because that means theirs possibility to do better
The 24 Hours of Lemons, which is kind of comical, and Land Speed Racing are still car and driver. NASCAR, F1 and Indy Car have become spec car races. They might as well be running Formula Vee. Still, of the big draw races, Endurance Sports Car racing is the most interesting.
Nonya Damnbusiness lol I agree I'd like to see races with cars that they actually sale retail like they used to way before I was born I love watching the races where they raced cars that you could go out and buy
Holy Crap! That footage at the very end of that Le Mans car absolutely flying down the straightaway at light speed is incredible, is that from the 1971 Steve Mcqueen movie "Le Mans"?
The Ford GT 40 was a refinement of the Lola GT which had used a Ford 289 V8 mid-engined in a small beautiful coupe. Ford bought the design from Eric Bradly and was only able to beat Ferrari by using bigger and bigger, rather crude, V8s to out-power the better engineered V12s Enzo loved. The Ford car went from a smaller, pretty car to a big, ugly monsterut it won.
That's sad, why did you get so mad? If you know the story of the Lola GT (and it's succsess) you would not be, so your lack of knowledge is your only problem here. The reason i react is the fact that this i taught as some sort of American hero story, when the Americans went all left and right turns. The Enzo beef ended with Ford buying a car which had already done great in testing. Lola was one of the finest racing car maker of it's time, miles ahead of the competition, decades ahead of Ford. The Lola GT was a car, it needed an engine. It needed a good engine, the one it already had suffered from a low top speed and high stress during the mulsanne straight. It had already set a new record on Le Mans, with the old engine (which eventually failed during testing) So, the Lola GT was fast and groundbreaking even before Ford ever got into the picture. Were clearly both car people, this is one of the great stories of motorsports. Why change the story to make it coherent with your patriotism? I'm Norwegian btw. And i critized the way americans really dont know this particular story, not your country or inventions. A point you actually confirmed in your bald eagle dive into mediocreness.
`Its the all american bullshit that gets to me . Bruce Mclaren, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon all Kiwis where barely mentioned and peter brock a young designer that helped solve issues .and Bruce Mclaren with his development of down force technology that ford just did not have . All ford had was a cheque book and a big block . So usa you have never won shit without paying for it
When it comes to any form of competitive competition or sport I go for motor racing over any athletic sport. When it comes to any form of motorsports to me it's always going to be sports car racing over any other form of Motorsport
It seems to me, (an American), that the four most famous races in the world are the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. I wonder if anybody who has been to more than one of those event s could comment on their experiences and reactions and make a comparison. Which is truly the "greatest race"?
Sergey Popov Your foul language is an indication of your ignorance. Jaguar was not involved in that crash. Levegh's Mercedes clipped an Austin Healey ... and who is to say which of the two was at fault? Certainly NOT you!
+maximator S honestly it's not anyone's fault it was just a racing deal, those things happen and it's only worsened by the fact that horrible safety regulations got 80+ people killed.
John Fitch (Levegh's teammate said that Hawthorne gave Macklin enough room. unfortunately, Macklin was checking behind him at that instant, and was nearly on the Jaguar before he hit the brakes. That's why he moved left so suddenly (right where the track bends right) leaving poor Levegh no possible way to miss him. Racing luck unless you want to blame the race organisers who actually took more precautions than most tracks of that era.
You guys are wrong. First race at Le Mans took place in 1906, it was first ACF Grand Prix and first Grand Prix ever. Therefore, 100 years of racing there passed in 2006.
New Zealand drivers Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber keep Porsche works jobs The first Kiwis to finish first were . Formula One drivers Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon in 1966.
+Weston Adams Rotary engines were banned in the early 1990s when the FIA mandated 3.5L engines for Group C, and that ban has stuck ever since. Today I think there would be two problems stopping a return of the rotary. First, the series has enough on it's plate trying to balance petrol vs diesel and the various hybrid power levels. I don't think they want another variable thrown into the mix. The other issue is noise. A few years ago they added a noise limit of 110 dB for every car in order to keep locals happy at all of the tracks. The rotary engine was notorious for being the loudest engine by a wide margin, so much so that Andy Wallace specifically mentioned the sound of the Mazdas keeping him awake at Le Mans.
sorry it's taken so long...I made the prog and I had the music composed by a guy I used to work with - I wanted it to sound a bit like a track by the house of love which I loved driving to. his name was moneef. he's in the credits
![[Documentary] 24 Hours At Le Mans (1982)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5SS0l4sx56A/mqdefault.jpg)
This is great, thanks for uploading! Wow that guy in 1933 who drove for 20 hours is pretty incredible!
Great documentary. I love le Mans, My first visit was in 1992. I still have the T-shirt with the winning Peugeot 905 :)
Also I want to point out that Paul Newman's effort at LeMans was entirely due to Rolf Stommelen. He had the race of his life and almost won it single handed. The man was one of motor racing's best talents and tragically was killed in an avoidable accident at the Riverside in 1983. R.I.P Rolf. You're greatly missed. :)
I'm a fan all every Motorsport and still found this insightful.~ :)
the final 60 seconds of this is the best
Ford wouldn't have been able to win without Carroll Shelby, who's name is missing from this video. It was Shelby's car (Cobra Daytona Coupe) that first knocked Ferrari out of his winning streak, not Ford. Otherwise a very information documentary.
Damn the Shelby Daytona Coupe is gorgeous!! 🥰
The most fantastic motorsport competition on the world
*You mean "in the whole Universe" ;)*
It’s rather amusing to hear about the marvellous Ford GT40 with no mention of the Lola input, it’s as if it was entirely a Detroit product.
That long straight at the end gives you plenty of time to think about a mechanical failure at 240+ mph. If a bird flys up and hits you in the face shield you're probably toast. There are so many things that can go wrong, and the straight is so long. It takes a lot of courage to run that hard for that long. And add pitch black night to the equation, man I like to race, but not that much.
Now it is split into 3 parts thanks to chicanes, with the first part being the fastest one since you come from a pretty fast corner
+Diego Ruiz Yea BOOORINGG!! Why does FIA ruin all the fun :(
SingleTurboSupra What's so fun about such a long straight? I appreciate a good drag race but Mulsanne was silly. Also, we went from ONE overtaking opportunity to THREE in the same area!
***** Well yea but it was much more characteristic, than two micky-mouse chicanes cutting the straight. Imo it was much more awesome to see cars hitting 400 km/h.
And tbh the Le Mans isn't really the best race if you want to see actual racing. It's more about the endurance. You win races by overtaking less efficient cars when they are pitting or when they are having a problem in their car. Not really that much wheel-to-wheel racing. Maybe a little with GT cars, but not with prototypes.
THE Mulsanne without the Kinks gave the drivers a chance to relax a little. The drivers say they appreciated the brief rest.
"Victory without risk is a triumph without glory"
damm
That ending with the inboard of the old- chicane free- Mulsanne... Wow! Just... wow!
I'm a NASCAR fan and find this fascinating, and insightful. I guess I'm an avid auto racing fan.
Cadillac are racing for outright victory at Le Mans next year.
There´s no other race like it. Not on asphalt. And in comparison it makes the F1 seem like a quickie on a public toilet.
This race has to be the only truly glamorous Motorsport event that continues to this day, since F1 lost its glamour upon the oil crisis, and WRC is not popular enough.
NASCAR? same reason.
Gotta agree
And it gets more and more popular every year. With more manufactures switching over to endurance. Apparently BMW and McLaren wants to come back
Johannes LaCroix I wish wrc was more popular. most exciting racing in my opinion
creator 44 me too. I love that sport. Especially the way it is now.
CENTENON I meant the same reason as F1.
5 times my dad ran at Lemans..Cheers!
That is cool. What cars did he drive?
He ran? He should have drove...maybe he would have placed better than imaginary last.
LOL..Actually,3 times...I was mistaken..Long time ago and I was Young..NART Ferrari 365GTB,Toad Hall Porsche 911RSR,and Interscope Racing Porsche 935K..
Philbert Desenex
Why u like that
who is your dad , a great man
Le Mans with only Toyota brings lmp1 is a shame, it’s too lonely
Henry Ford II was not Henry Ford Jr. That would imply that he was old Henry's son.
He was the son of Edsel Ford.
Why don't other car companies like ferrari, mclaren, mercedes etc compete in the LMP1 seriously like audi or Peugeot?
$$$$$
The Germans dominated LeMans like no other. 33 victories. Porsche alone has 17. That's as much as all British makes combined.
Yeah because the britts is busy with f1. 16 world championship driver from 10 driver. And 19 constructor tittle.
rockzs74r Yeah don't forget the Germans too. 12 world champions achieved just by 3 drivers, 7 constructor title only by Mercedes. Schumacher holds the records for the most World Championship titles (7), the most Grand Prix wins (91), the most fastest laps (77) and the most races won in a single season (13).
2020 GM with C8r kick-ass Porsche junk 😂
Freaking Porsche dominates many racing series!
Some great old school footage in this, like the way they balanced the old and the new, pretty nice vid :)
I thought rendezvous wasnt filmed in a ferrari but a car with a hydrosuspension like a peugot or renault but with a ferrari exhaust dubbed over
I still believe the dangerous, often deadly cars from the 60s and 60s were the most beautiful. The one car I would love to own is the 1962 Ferrari Dino 246SP. I don't
know why but that car makes me weak in the knees...
Makes modern day electric F1 'racing' about as exciting as seeing (not hearing!) a bunch of Prius's lollygag around a parking lot.
the GT-40 is one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe 🥰
The first 30 seconds were great: no background music. Then it began, covering what is being said. Why so loud for F*** sake?. When will producers make up their minds: video clip or documentary?
They really didn’t mention Ken miles in fords first victory 😭
Nowadays at Le Mans, cars lookalike, it's hard to know teams, it's like watching NASCAR race, no offence.
Henry ford2 offered 16 mn dollars to buy Ferrari not 15
.., and now..., 9 times legend Tom Kristensen👍🇩🇰
for the record, levet in a mercedes, was pushed into macklin by mike hawthorne driving a jaguar,...who won and celebrated very arrogantly...hawthorne died on an english road a few years later, trying to overtake a mercedes ironically.
Stucchevole la continua pubblicità a Bolex (che, tra l'altro, oltre che volgari, manco sono precisi)
I can't see any of those firms wanting to run diesels, which you need to do to win (at least, until the diesel/gasoline conversion factors become fairer). Plus those companies are too busy with F1.
Audi and Peugeot would probably prefer to be in F1 tha LM from a marketing perspective.
Their marketing perspective = diesel. And they can't use that anywhere else.
Btw, Peugeot withdrew in January 2012 due the economics, was 'replaced' by Toyota last year (Toyota don't actually use diesel).
Good documentary, but very little talk of the races in the 1990's and early 2000's.
to finish first, first you have to finish.....
never so true about this race
blimey that's fast seeing the road markings disappear under the car at the end.
You don't need to run diesels. Toyota won three races with a petrol powered hybrid last year. The key is that Audi and Peugeot were spending the same amount as a small F1 team to compete against each other. It's something the other manufacturers can't afford to do while racing in F1, so they put their efforts into the GT categories.
Thank you for uploading, le mans is unique - greatest race ever was 69, Jacky Icks startet as a protest as last driver in the field and finished 2 seconds is a 24 hours race for Hans Hermann
Sadly nascar and F1 have both lost the true race experience, it seems like the only true races anymore where car and driver give it everything they have are street races, they are dangerous and a bunch of ego racers but their are also true drivers who want to break their own records and get excited when they lose because that means theirs possibility to do better
The 24 Hours of Lemons, which is kind of comical, and Land Speed Racing are still car and driver. NASCAR, F1 and Indy Car have become spec car races. They might as well be running Formula Vee. Still, of the big draw races, Endurance Sports Car racing is the most interesting.
Nonya Damnbusiness lol I agree I'd like to see races with cars that they actually sale retail like they used to way before I was born I love watching the races where they raced cars that you could go out and buy
Great footage. There's a lot more action in these GT races. More interesting to watch.
Holy Crap! That footage at the very end of that Le Mans car absolutely flying down the straightaway at light speed is incredible, is that from the 1971 Steve Mcqueen movie "Le Mans"?
No it's Derek Bell practising in a Porsche 956 in ''84. ruclips.net/video/OtX2t9NjO3A/видео.html
que dommage que tout ne sois pas sous titré en français.....je ne comprend pas tout en anglais.sinon quel beau document......merci mille fois!!!
Great Documentary! Thanks for posting!
The Ford GT 40 was a refinement of the Lola GT which had used a Ford 289 V8 mid-engined in a small beautiful coupe. Ford bought the design from Eric Bradly and was only able to beat Ferrari by using bigger and bigger, rather crude, V8s to out-power the better engineered V12s Enzo loved. The Ford car went from a smaller, pretty car to a big, ugly monsterut it won.
+Thomas Nixon I love it when americans say the Ford GT is american.
That's sad, why did you get so mad? If you know the story of the Lola GT (and it's succsess) you would not be, so your lack of knowledge is your only problem here.
The reason i react is the fact that this i taught as some sort of American hero story, when the Americans went all left and right turns. The Enzo beef ended with Ford buying a car which had already done great in testing. Lola was one of the finest racing car maker of it's time, miles ahead of the competition, decades ahead of Ford.
The Lola GT was a car, it needed an engine. It needed a good engine, the one it already had suffered from a low top speed and high stress during the mulsanne straight. It had already set a new record on Le Mans, with the old engine (which eventually failed during testing)
So, the Lola GT was fast and groundbreaking even before Ford ever got into the picture.
Were clearly both car people, this is one of the great stories of motorsports. Why change the story to make it coherent with your patriotism? I'm Norwegian btw. And i critized the way americans really dont know this particular story, not your country or inventions. A point you actually confirmed in your bald eagle dive into mediocreness.
`Its the all american bullshit that gets to me . Bruce Mclaren, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon all Kiwis where barely mentioned and peter brock a young designer that helped solve issues .and Bruce Mclaren with his development of down force technology that ford just did not have . All ford had was a cheque book and a big block . So usa you have never won shit without paying for it
When it comes to any form of competitive competition or sport I go for motor racing over any athletic sport. When it comes to any form of motorsports to me it's always going to be sports car racing over any other form of Motorsport
Where can I find the movie that was made in 2003 Michel Vaillant? The Steve McQueen movie is the one that I own and watch it at least once a year.
Wonderful video and a lovely trip down memory lane. I lived in South Africa and remember the Ferrari/Ford battle so well as if yesterday!
To experience Le Mans in person is a dream I must make true.
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Extrol gratuliert ! Ein Genuss für jeden Automobil Fan........
4:14 that's right because they change their GEARBOX every pit stop
It seems to me, (an American), that the four most famous races in the world are the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. I wonder if anybody who has been to more than one of those event s could comment on their experiences and reactions and make a comparison. Which is truly the "greatest race"?
24hrs at Nurburgring, of course....
I saw the big engine Audis and Peugeots at Road Atlanta in 2010, they were awesome and amazingly fast!
the best, ingruelling, passionate and greatest experience in motorsport history....LE MANS
It's a great race, but, these days, none of the top F1 drivers enter. Not like in the 50's and 60's when all the greats were in it.
Show the image of Santos Dummont flying whith the 14 biz and said The Wright Brothers ?
Something is wrong.
The last 30 seconds of this vid is astounding.
Amazing vid, thx.
✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐
@#rolfdejonge@
What an amazing car and team. Its not solely up to the driver.
and now Tom kristensen have won it 9 times. so amazing.. what a talent he got
Great video, thanks for share it!
Le Mans, "The Day" tHat alSo meaSures 24 HoUrs from stArt to stOp.
Great Document. Anyone here going to see the new movie on the '66 Le mans
Pretty sure 66 lemans was stolen from Ken miles rather than this Danny huelm character he speaks of
I can barely wait for the 100th anniversary! :D
Fantastic Footage. Thank you!
Jackie won it by only a hundred meters!!!
i just love le mans i don't know why
fucking jaguar caused horrible crash of 1955
Sergey Popov Your foul language is an indication of your ignorance. Jaguar was not involved in that crash. Levegh's Mercedes clipped an Austin Healey ... and who is to say which of the two was at fault? Certainly NOT you!
+maximator S honestly it's not anyone's fault it was just a racing deal, those things happen and it's only worsened by the fact that horrible safety regulations got 80+ people killed.
John Fitch (Levegh's teammate said that Hawthorne gave Macklin enough room. unfortunately, Macklin was checking behind him at that instant, and was nearly on the Jaguar before he hit the brakes. That's why he moved left so suddenly (right where the track bends right) leaving poor Levegh no possible way to miss him. Racing luck unless you want to blame the race organisers who actually took more precautions than most tracks of that era.
100 years of passion? The first race was in 1923...
You guys are wrong. First race at Le Mans took place in 1906, it was first ACF Grand Prix and first Grand Prix ever. Therefore, 100 years of racing there passed in 2006.
And someone needs to learn simple english's
Congratulations for courage.
should be lights down the Maasuanne
Without any doubt that was the most interesting documentary film I've ever seen.
No mention of Ken Miles in '66? Lame.
0 mentions of Ken Miles… what a shame
All I can say is Gran Turismo 5.
The old ferraris are beautiful.
Come back TheRacingJungle.
the triple crown is not indy 500, le mans 24h and f1 world championship but it's the indy 500, le mans 24h and f1 monaco gp
New Zealand drivers Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber keep Porsche works jobs The first Kiwis to finish first were . Formula One drivers Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon in 1966.
Some say, the World Championship, Indy 500, and Daytona 500 You could throw in the USAC championship, and have Mario Andretti standing all alone.
That's cool, dude wins Le Mans in a car he built himself! Yeah! ✊
246 mph!? 🤯
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why FIA banned rotary ?
+Weston Adams Rotary engines were banned in the early 1990s when the FIA mandated 3.5L engines for Group C, and that ban has stuck ever since. Today I think there would be two problems stopping a return of the rotary. First, the series has enough on it's plate trying to balance petrol vs diesel and the various hybrid power levels. I don't think they want another variable thrown into the mix. The other issue is noise. A few years ago they added a noise limit of 110 dB for every car in order to keep locals happy at all of the tracks. The rotary engine was notorious for being the loudest engine by a wide margin, so much so that Andy Wallace specifically mentioned the sound of the Mazdas keeping him awake at Le Mans.
Thanks for the upload. I'm an avid Formula One fan and this was very insightful..
32:29 I didnt think the narrator was a native german speaker, hes good
they raced at the town of le mans since the edwardian times
Scary seeing yourself on film.................
2010 is now the most distanse ever covered
why did tom kritstensen retire?????
2018 le man's anyone here ? 😜
"4 corners of the globe" :DD
38:15 still hasn't been repeated
bought by jackie chan.
Anyone knows what's the music starting qtt 2:25 please?
thanks
sorry it's taken so long...I made the prog and I had the music composed by a guy I used to work with - I wanted it to sound a bit like a track by the house of love which I loved driving to. his name was moneef. he's in the credits
There is still no safety walls
They were bigger then now.
Thanks, very interesting
Thank you
Great upload
true! :D