24 HOURS OF LE MANS 1970

The Speed Merchants Collection
24 Hours of Le Mans

[@terrencethorn9237]

Wonderful memories. I was 20 yrs. old then and all these drivers, cars and teams, were my heros. I was at Daytona and Sebring that year. It was a fantastic time to be a sports car racing fan. Thank you for this video and the memories it brings !

[@michael1axy]

Glad you enjoyed....Michael Keyser

[@375GTB]

I was blessed to be at the finish line, on the ramp behind the flagman... Daytona 1967 Jumping up and down! 1-2-3 My beloved 330P4's REVENGE! I was still but only 17 years old.... J.C.

[@bloqk16]

As of January 2021, the winning drivers of Hans Hermann and Richard Attwood are still alive; at ages 92 and 80. Considering the dangers of motorsports of that era and their respective ages, that's remarkable!

[@tonkool4736]

Richard Attwood appeared in an episode of "The Grand Tour" (can be seen on Amazon), racing against James May, in an original Porsche 917... And...he was very quick! :-)

[@michael1axy]

Lot of those photos are in books on our website...autosportsltd.com

[@375GTB]

Dickie looked fine at a recent Goodwood bash. He And David Hobbs are ETERNAL! How is David Piper? He must be 90+ if he's still with us. Mario is still Mario.... Tony Brooks passing took the LAST of the 1950s GP winners from us... Missing Stirl... Amazing just who DID survive.... 1964 to 1973 I only saw Canadian Comstock GT-40 driver John MacLean buy the farm at the Hairpin, Sebring, 1966.... A wheel came off right in front of our eyes... Green smoke sufficated him... Lexan windows, roll over doors, Sand bank, all added up to TRAGEDY... Inept Sebring Fire Dept. Deputies with cattle pods forced us away, while he was still hammering away, inside... We need an AXE! None to be found. Our MGB's brass knock off hammer just bounced off the damned thing. We went home before the later tragedy at The Websters.... We had seen enough.... Carried a duble bitted axe and a sledge hammer to Daytona, 1967 and subsequent races. Useful for breaking up packing crates to BURN Freezing cold 1968 24 Hours, 18 and 24F seen in the infield. But they were never needed again, for the other purpose thank God! Despite a few AIRBORNE events off the banking, a couple years later.. RACING! J.C.

[@willtalley4753]

Growing up, I always had a soft spot for the 512 due to me watching Steve McQueens movie Le Mans almost everyday when I was young. However as I got older, I’ve fallen in love with the 312p. It just looks so gorgeous, especially in the configuration seen here!

[@bloqk16]

The transfer of the analog still-photos (from film) to digital was very well done; the quality of the images displayed are first-rate.

[@joshuaman1126]

Best pictures I’ve ever seen of that race ❤️thank you. My favorite cars of all time.

[@steveshap1369]

Magnificent memories, thank you!

[@gimmeshelter1969]

Superb video (state of the art IMHO) of a very special event: The 1970 LeMans 24-Hours.

[@dennisesplin3285]

I used to stay up all night under the bed sheets listening to Le Man's. No other race compares to it. Fantastic stills convey the race. Wonderful period. Wonderful drivers. Wonderful cars. Wonderful crowd.

[@375GTB]

The IOM TT can do that! Online since about 2000 SW before Manx Radio TT Copied to audio cassette... J.C.

[@swm320tl]

Race seen @ the italian TV (b&w) ; great race, tysm for sharing those beautiful pictures.

[@roland2879]

Beautiful photos are better than a video. Many thanks.

[@yankeeairpirate1799]

Love the memories...got some of you wayyyyy back in the days of Gregg, Holbert, Bruce Jennings, Al Alden...I drove the green 911 2.0 in CP, purchased from Vasek ( previously driven by Uncle Milty, and Tony A)...I just subscribed, blessings to you, Jim Glanton.

[@signorpippistrello]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing them!

[@ranathane]

Thank you very much for this compilation! I was looking for video (we are so used to instant gratification today ;), but this was inspired. If you had more pics that you didn't use maybe a new longer cut would be in order. Again, thank you for your work on this!

[@angelosantaniello4113]

Wonderful

[@markchamberlain9856]

Great shots! Thanks for posting a lot of great memories!

[@stevemcrichards8768]

I don't think that was dust it was unburnt hydrocarbons. Amazing photographic work to capture this and remaster it in color and the clarity of the work is fantastic and really I can picture being there. Amazing time period in racing.

[@karpabla]

Absolutely gorgeous! That pictures are wonderful, Perhaps my best loved race in motorsport. What a luck that it was indirectly well documented in the famous film. The film was fine, I liked it, but IMO the star was the real footage of that precious race.

[@35sixer]

Thanks Micheal for posting. Just ordered a 917 poster from your online store.

[@JustSomeDinosaurPerson]

Really wish Jo Siffert hadn't missed his downshift. He was over 10 laps ahead at one point in the race. Absolute, underrated beast of a racer.

[@Vector2112]

Indeed. My all time favorite. Seppi ❤️ 🏁

[@monsieurpascal536]

souvenirs,souvenirs...magnifique photos...

[@rennporsche9347]

Special memories from a special era. Thanks for sharing.

[@375GTB]

TRULY!

[@gustavobrito2871]

excelente trabajo sobre las imágenes originales, la música también es muy buena. Gracias por compartir y aun que no nos toco esa época fue de las mejores si no la mejor.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Excellent vid, thanks! 👏🏻

[@375GTB]

My friend Tony a2z (RIP 10-2016) 8th OA NART 312P Coupe (NC by 1 lap!!) NART #6 512M for 1971 race Miss Tony terribly Hero... who became my friend Sam Posey is still with us.. An artist, these days Good for the Parkinsons that keeps him out of cars... Forza Ferrari J.C.

[@arnaudfauchere1769]

🏁👍🏁Merci pour la vidéo.🏁👍🏁

[@a2z60s]

Superb stuff. G reat picture and music selection !

[@SachiGortchi]

SUPER MEGA GORGEOUS !!!

[@375GTB]

TEARS! Missing my friend Tony a2z.... RIP 10-2016.... The Children's Crusade at NART With Sam, Chuck and the crew! GLAD Clay R. got his well deserved bit in RUSH! Seeing these guys at Daytona and Sebring 1964 - 1973 Changed my life... J.C. Age 73.... FORZA FERRARI

[@madrettorfotrop6016]

Absolutely wonderful photo's! A joy to watch. As a yearly visitor from 2004 onwards, it is wonderful to see how charmingly simple everything was back then. Very little distance between the track and the vistors. So accessible and a sort of chaotic entourage. Less buildings and of course the straight Hunaudieres. Things have changed a lot at Le Mans, even in recent years. The entourage on the circuit has become more professional, but also lost a bit of its French charm. No complaining though, still a hell of a wonderful event!

[@375GTB]

There HAVE to be more videos of the 1970 and 1971 24 Hours out there. NOT from Steve's movie... But from the various sponsors As they were seen on TV in the era. SOME by satellite... Sunoco would be good bet... Martini&Rossi ABC TV GM/Corning Corvette effort.... Many More!!! DIG DEEPER! J.C.

[@gerhardnigl8253]

Great memories for great drivers!

[@SlotraceDK]

I have a lot of those cars as slotcars. Beautyful cars! ❤❤❤

[@MrLonguinha17]

fantastic...

[@tonykeats9720]

Great pictures being a porsche and ferrari fan and Steve mcqueen film of the same name is my favourite film .if these pictures and more were in a book I would definitely buy it I'm a diecast car collector and I'm trying to collect as many of the cars within this movie also ...Great pictures thanks for sharing

[@michael1axy]

Tony: A lot of the photos are in books on our web site. autosportsltd.com

[@tonykeats9720]

Thank you for the information

[@racingdoraneko3967]

This is the best photo for me .

[@jordipena7984]

👌

[@375GTB]

1970 Le Mans 24 Hrs 13-14 June 1970 - Le Mans (F): Round 8, International Manufacturers Championship. Round 4, Challenge Mondial. Round 3, Endurance Triple Crown 24 Hour duration in which 342 laps of a 8.369 mile/13.469 km circuit - 2863.165 miles/4607.810 kms were completed Weather: heavy rain Pos Car # Drivers Car Entrant Laps DNF Reason Grid Qual.Time Group Group Pos Notes 1 23 Richard Attwood/Hans Herrmann/Vic Elford^/Kurt Ahrens,Jr.^/Rudi Lins* Porsche 917K [023] Porsche KG Salzburg 343 15 3m32.6 Sports 5000 1 2 3 Gérard Larrousse/Willy Kauhsen/Richard Attwood*/Reinhold Joest* Porsche 917L [043] Martini International Racing Team 338 12 3m30.8 Sports 5000 2 3 27 Rudi Lins/Helmut Marko/Hans-Dieter Dechent* Porsche 908/02 LH [005] Martini International Racing Team 335 22 3m38.9 Prototype 3000 1 4 11 Sam Posey/Ronnie Bucknum/Mark Donohue* Ferrari 512S [1014] North American Racing Team 313 13 3m31.2 Sports 5000 3 5 12 Hughes de Fierlant/Alistair Walker/Jean Blaton* Ferrari 512S [1030] Ecurie Francorchamps 305 25 3m40.4 Sports 5000 4 NC 2 Henri Greder/Jean-Pierre Rouget/Bob Wollek^ Chevrolet Corvette Greder Racing 286 35 4m10.5 Grand Touring [phone] Claude Ballot-Léna/Guy Chasseuil Porsche 914/6 GT [043 1020] Etablissement Sonauto 285 45 4m30.0 Grand Touring 2000 1 NC 29 Herbert Linge/Jonathan Williams/Rob Slotemaker^/Mike Hailwood^/Steve McQueen*/Jackie Stewart* Porsche 908/02 [022] Solar Productions 282 31 4m03.7 Prototype 3000 2 #48 at test 7 47 Erwin Kremer/Nicolas Koob Porsche 911S Ecurie Luxembourg 282 43 4m29.6 Grand Touring 2500 1 NC 57 Chuck Parsons/Tony Adamowicz Ferrari 312P Coupé [0872] North American Racing Team 281 28 3m54.1 Prototype 3000 3

[@joseluisasensio8599]

53 años pasaron y el PORSCHE 917 k ES EL MEJOR DE TODA LA HISTORIA ...joss

[@chuckm6769]

Love the photo of the Mulsanne at 9:34 - prototype and 911 contrast.

[@fittipaldi7326]

Never realised 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham raced a Le Mans with Cevert .. fantastic images

[@thethirdman225]

3:41 what an amazing shot. He really doesn't look well.

[@hugos_boss2762]

Hi! Can anyone tell me what`s the song between 08:04 and 09:42? THX

[@josefdez1980]

Animals, Luchetomusic

[@davidatkins836]

I'm in the crowd scenes!

[@michael1axy]

Which crowd scene? Take a screen shot of the image and send me an e-mail ([e-mail]) and I'll send you a highres image...Or are you kidding? Michael Keyser

[@davidatkins836]

@@michael1axy Hi. I was there that year and many other years and I am somewhere opposite the pits along with tens of thousands of others. So really it was really ment as a joke! but thanks for the offer.

[@robertsargent4600]

Unfuckin believable Hitler and Napoleon would be proud

[@aluk4805]

Nr 4 T70 is Teddy Pilette, not Jo Bonnier

[@audegondphilippe6582]

really

[@sergelarue1095]

complètement d 'accord avec vous

[@thomaswinkler8129]

what's the music (title/artist) between 8:04 and 9:42? Thanks in advance

[@michael1axy]

I don't know the artist of the music....sorry

[@thomaswinkler8129]

@@michael1axy ok, but thank you anyway for that great video :-)

[@tabajaraaparecidojorge307]

Show

[@eudaldguell3004]

The best or nothing.

[@gathasofpersia6432]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What happened to FORD ??????????????????????

[@aureliobrighton1871]

For no logical reason ... as it would most probably make no difference .. to me the Spyder bodies look extra daring . to race at full speed 😓

[@michaeld.uchiha9084]

The 917 LH shocked Ford 69 so much that they decided to never run at LeMans Top Class again.

[@375GTB]

You know NOTHING! The GT-40 Mk.1 was 5 years old... The M.II and M.IV Banned by the FIA Read some history! Ignoramus! Forza Ferrari J.C.

[@michaeld.uchiha9084]

@@375GTB yeah sure Ferrari loser fanboy.🤣

[@375GTB]

FAHRT!

[@375GTB]

@@michaeld.uchiha9084 UP YOURS!

[@Michael_Lorenson]

The Ford factory stopped developing the GT40 and pulled out of FIA racing after 1967, when the Ford GT Mk IV won Le Mans. John Wyer Racing continued developing and racing the conventional (non-Mk IV) Ford GT, and managed to win in both 1968 and 1969. The same chassis won both races - the only chassis ever to win Le mans more than once. But, really, the Porsche 908s were quicker and more efficient, and probably 'should' have won in both years. In 1969, the first Porsche 917s were easily the fastest things on the track, but had enough fundamental technical issues that they weren't ready to win, yet.

[@Michael_Lorenson]

Excellent, thanks

[@jessejuliano5336]

I was waiting for at least a glimse of possibly the best underdog ever in the history of LeMans. Where is the 6th place Porsche 914-6?

[@michael1axy]

Sorry no photos of the underdog 914-6