Men man overraskes ikke og får ikke det store med sig. I think the “docked lap” theory can be put to one side. Henry was on the podium and I believe his wife was also there. But intriguingly, Ken Miles’ biographer Art Evans (who is one of the few people who discussed the race with Miles before Miles (below) was killed eight weeks after Le Mans) claims that Miles did know that the distance rule existed. The story is a dramatic one, but stripped down to its barest essentials: Ford (right) tried to buy Ferrari; failed; made spectacularly unsuccessful attacks on the 1964 and 1965 races; launched an overwhelming campaign in 1966; saw the Ferrari resistance fade away as that race unfolded; and instructed Ken Miles and Bruce McLaren not to race each other to the flag, but to cross the line side by side. I was driving with Bruce McLaren in the #2 GT40 and we both knew our main competitors would be the other Fords. Minden 500. feliratkozó után 5db Alapjáratos pólót sorsolunk ki. I didn't get any. It's difficult to say because the speed differential was higher in my day and the cars didn't provide as much protection. Ken Miles na Le Mans v tomto voze startoval již v roce 1965, ale kvůli selhání techniky závod nedokončil. Le Mans 1966. 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans, der 34 e Grand Prix d’Endurance les 24 Heures du Mans, … The circuit was also more dangerous. Some authors have gone so far as to say that the so-called “distance rule” simply never existed. Indeed, it is significant that in the new book Ford GT: How Ford silenced the critics, humbled Ferrari, and won Le Mans the theory is only given very scant attention, even though Friedman is a co-author. 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I recall it was damp and we were running on intermediate Firestone tyres and at 210-220mph [355kmh] on the Mulsanne Straight, the tyres were shedding tread. Clarke, R.M. Grand Prix (1966) Le Mans (1971) Rush (2013) Gasivodo 14-11-19 06:49 ★★★★ 0. Le Mans '66. Iratkozz fel hírlevelünkre! TJS - Web Design Lincolnshire, Join the conversation across Facebook, Twitter & Instagram, From The Archives: Highlights From Bernd Schneider’s Career. So what happened as the cars crossed the line? In 2002 Zwartkops incorporated the South African Tourist Trophy (SA TT) into its program as a one-hour event for pre 1966 Le Mans Sports Grand Touring Cars. Scénář k filmu napsali Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth a Jason Keller. Sv rady a p ipom nky pi te na email: havlicek@lemans.cz Dejte si odkaz na sv str nky Posledn aktualizace 19.5.2017. You would get huge blisters on your hand from changing gear. Bruce and I were both contracted to Firestone so it was a difficult thing for Bruce to negotiate a switch to Goodyear. Our cars didn't have power steering or paddle shift gear boxes so they were physically very demanding to drive. LE MANS, France, June 9, 2016 – Ford’s 1966 Le Mans winner Chris Amon reminisces about that historic race 50 years ago in this exclusive interview.. Q) Chris, going into the race, who were your biggest rivals – Ferrari or the other Ford GT cars? Ruku na srdce, Netflix se o prvním březnovém víkendu zase tolik nepředvádí. A város nevét világszerte a híres 24 órás autósversenyekről ismerik, amelyeket 1923 óta … Unissued / Unused material - Le Mans, France. ShareFacebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Email, As David Greenhalgh shows, the true story of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours remains very elusive …. Chris, going into the race, who were your biggest rivals – Ferrari or the other Ford GT cars? I took over from Bruce and he spoke to Firestone and they generously said we could switch to the Goodyears the other GT40s were running. Alt dette gør jo ”Le Mans '66” til en rigtig god oplevelse, man nyder at overvære. The winning GT40 "Mark II" cars were in the Prototype class, because they were modified beyond the limits of the homologated GT40 "Mark I" cars in the Sport class. A) I was driving with Bruce McLaren in the #2 GT40 and we both knew our main competitors would be the other Fords. I can't remember exactly what was said but it was a very joyous occasion. Bruce said to me we had to drive the doors off the thing so we did. Zapojte se do diskuse okolo z vodu Le Mans, z vodn ch voz a sb r n jejich model . But even if they were side by side at some earlier line where the race actually ended, the distance rule was always going to sink Miles. LE MANS '66. Find the perfect Le Mans 1967, Le Mans stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Hans hold af skuespillere behøver ingen yderligere introduktion og omfatter Christian Bale og Matt Damon i de to hovedroller. Le Mans '66 (v originále Ford v Ferrari) je americký sportovní film z roku 2019 režiséra Jamese Mangolda natočený na motivy osudů automobilových konstruktérů a závodníků Kena Milese a Carrolla Shelbyho.Snímek sleduje cestu týmu Shelby American k vítězství v závodě 24 hodin Le Mans z roku 1966. If the chequered flag marked the finish line, then McLaren (below) clearly won, and there was no need to have invoked the distance rule at all. Forestil dig at du virkelig bliver forkælet; Sæt dig til rette i den mest behagelige stol. There was a real risk the discs could crack. by Stephen Kilbey But McLaren had made an almost identical comment, so perhaps the Kiwi did indeed speed up to beat Miles as they reached the line. With grateful thanks to the Ford Motor Company and the Henry Ford Archives for their cooperation in the sourcing of photographs to illustrate this feature. We ran at Le Mans in '65 in the GT40 and we were so much faster than Ferrari until we had reliability issues. When I was called in to change tyres, I think Bruce's frustration had reached boiling point, he put his head through the car door and said 'go like hell'. Tell us about the podium celebration at the end. D kuji za V z jem. But the race organisers had other ideas. Strhující příběh o tom, jak konstruktér aut Carroll Shelby a britský jezdec Ken Miles postaví pro automobilku Ford revoluční závodní auto, aby mohli zvítězit nad Enzem Ferrarim v závodu 24 Le Mans ve Francii roku 1966. We had both driven the first two 7.0-litre cars at Le Mans the previous year: Bruce with Ken Miles and myself with Phil Hill. I also had some interesting conversations with Henry Ford II and his wife Cristina, during the night. I wish the team all the best. Ford will naturally seek to emphasise what a great triumph it was for the marque, as indeed it was. Mangold dokazuje, že se silné lidské příběhy schovávají v každém odvětví. We decided to set a pace for ourselves, which would keep us in touch with the lead and then go for it later in the race. Strhující příběh o tom, jak konstruktér aut Carroll Shelby a britský jezdec Ken Miles postaví pro automobilku Ford revoluční závodní auto, aby mohli zvítězit nad Enzem Ferrarim v závodu 24 Le Mans ve Francii roku 1966. The idea was that the leading GT40s would cross the line together, but in practice, it wasn't possible to have a dead heat. Kiwi driver Brendon Hartley's helmet for the 2016 race celebrates Chris Amon (right) and Bruce McLaren. Sounds pretty simple and familiar, but the end of the 1966 race is probably the most mis-reported finish of a major race in the history of the sport. The McLaren team was commissioned by Ford to build a lightweight version of the GT40 for possible use in 1966. We were stopping every hour and a half for fuel and we weren't allowed to drive for more than four hours at a time. I have to admit I was only 22 at the time and I was overawed by the situation. But that view is not only in the minority, it doesn’t have the feel of commonsense to it. Erős Márk 2019. június 04. What was the toughest part of the race for you? I would be delighted for Ford. Again, the most common assertion is that they knew nothing of the distance rule. Så den glider ned som et stykke ristet med ost. He would hardly have made that comment if he thought he was a lap ahead of McLaren. Be that as it may, as the race drew to a close (and despite the denial of Carroll Shelby (right) in an interview as late as 2003), the Ford brass did know exactly what the ACO was going to do in the event of a dead heat. The 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 36th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 28 and 29 September 1968 on the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France.. I think today's drivers are subjected to much higher G-forces and they also have to manage different settings in the car so they have more to think about during the race. What would a Ford victory mean to you in 2016? On the eve of Le Mans 2016, Chris Amon remembers his part in that historic 1966 victory. READ MORE: * Dixon racing against the clock ahead of Le Mans debut * Hartley to honour Amon, McLaren at Le Mans * Dixon says Kiwi can-do attitude key to motorsport success. In the face of such an overwhelming corporate campaign, it was more than a little ironic that the very moment of the company’s triumph was marginalised by the actions of a determined Kiwi, an irascible expatriate Englishman, and some regulations which weren’t even clear to those who administered them. Well then, perhaps the man with the chequered flag wasn’t standing on the finish line, and the race actually ended somewhere else? Film of the finish confirms that the cars were almost exactly side by side as they approached the pits, before the gap between them widens as they reach the man with the flag, some distance further along. Bruce McLaren told Amon to "go like hell!" Le Mans '66, seriály HBO a další novinky, které musíte vidět o víkendu. Another thing was the cars back then chucked out quite a lot of oil so as the race went on, and the rain came down, it got very slippery. The more books and articles that one reads on the finish of the 1966 race, the more one realises that many of the key players have contradicted each other and sometimes themselves over the years, such that there is now no version of the event which can fit all known facts. Le Mans (kiejtés: ləmɑ̃) város Franciaországban, Loire mente régióban, annak Sarthe megyéjében. Ford won the 1966 Le Mans classic taking the first three placings after the failings of 1964 and 1965. 1966 was the year of the famous Ford GT40 1-2-3 finish. And how ironic is it if the ACO deserves to be criticised, not for having the distance rule in the first place (a rule which actually has some point to it), but for being so idiotic as to have the man with the flag standing on a painted line some distance from the actual finish line. There's no question that winning Le Mans with Ford was a very special moment in my career. We knew Ferrari had improved, but so had we, especially on the reliability front, and that proved to be the case in the race. Franciaország kulturális és történelmi városa címet viseli. At the end of the day, endurance racing is the ultimate test for man and machine, and that hasn't changed a bit in the last 50 years. All Rights Reserved. A whole cottage industry has grown up as to how that came about: Henry Manney in the Road & Track report of the race asserted that Miles braked or backed off, a view later endorsed by Leo Levine in Ford: The dust and the glory, Ronnie Spain in GT40, Pete Lyons in Autosport, Dave Friedman, and Art Evans. Beebe has always stood by his decision, while others, including Shelby, have rather unconvincingly wrung their hands saying, “if only I’d known…”. A to je ostatně důvod vysokého hodnocení. If any journalist ever did the digging that needed to be done straight after the race, finding a copy of the regulations, to see if the distance rule existed, and when and how the finish of the race was defined, he has kept very quiet about it for the last 50 years. The responsibility for the side-by-side finish lay with Ford racing manager Leo Beebe; he knew that it would entail victory for McLaren/Amon. Handlingen er forudsigelig som smagen fra en pakke discounttoast fra Aldi. I won with Bruce and he wasn't with us for much longer after that race so it would be especially poignant for me personally to see history recreated. Our attitude for Le Mans, because of the Daytona result, was obviously different. Yes, and there was a bit of history to that. The cars were going very, very slowly as they took the flag: if Miles thought that McLaren had dudded him, Miles could easily have accelerated back into the lead. I would take a shower when I got out of the car and change my overalls because you would get drenched in sweat driving the GT40.

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