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24 Hour Race Le Mans AKA British Ford Gt40… 1969
Description
No title. 24 hour race at Le Mans, France. British Ford GT40 wins.
L/S famous running start of the Le Mans 24-hour race. L/S as cars accelerate into the race. Various shots cars racing round circuit. L/S race, smoke in distance at scene of British driver John Woolfe's fatal crash. More shots...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Amelia
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 57316
- Sort Number:
- 69/050
- Time in/Out:
- 01:44:19:00 / 01:45:22:00
- Canister:
- 69/50
- Film ID:
- 2211.10
- Issue Date:
- 19/06/1969
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The race took place on 14 and 15 June 1969.
"a wrecked Porsche" - that's number 66, the Porsche 911T of Jean Egreteaud and Raymond Lopez. (That replaces my earlier amendment currently at the bottom of the shots list).
Amongst other identifiable cars are;
At 00:17, car 18 is the Ferrari 312P Coupe of Pedro Rodriguez and David Piper.
Also seen at 00:17, car 14 is the Porsche 917 LH of Rolf Stommelen and Kurt Ahrens.
At 00:22, car 12 is the Porsche 917 LH of Vic Elford and Richard Attwood.
At 00:24 number 42 is the POrsche 911T of Andre Wicky and Edgar Berney.
At 00:31 car 31 is the Alpine A220/68 Renault of Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Jean-Luc Therier.