[36][8], At 8pm, only the Miles and Gurney Fords and Rodiguez's Ferrari were on the lead lap (#64). With the 2.0L flat-6 engine from the 911, it had recently been homologated for Group 4 with the requisite 50 cars. Les services AlloCiné | The M620 had a 2-litre version of the BRM Formula 1 engine developing 245 bhp that could match the Porsches in speed, making 275 kp/h (170 mph). [39], What could have been a procession was anything but for Ford. Neither Ford nor Ferrari fielded a factory team for the Manufacturers' Championship that year; however, the John Wyer team running the Group 4 GT40s brought home the title for Ford and in 1969 achieved wins with the GT40 at Sebring and Le Mans. He was also still recovering from a big accident the previous year and would hand over to Scarfiotti if he got overly tired. The GT40s met the production requirement and 5 litre limit for homologation in the new Group 4 class. [16][18] Fighting on two fronts, the company also took on Porsche in the 2-litre class with its Dino 206 S with a pair from NART and another for Maranello. Get both manufacturer and user submitted pics. Réalisateur : James Mangold. Parkes was 6th ahead of Bonnier in the Chaparral who had already been lapped. Siffert/Davis were leading a train of Porsches in 7th and the nearest Ferrari was the Bandini/Guichet P3 limping in 12th. 10 bolt rear end. Details about 1966 Pontiac Le Mans 1966 Pontiac Lemans * Matching #'s * Stunning Restoration * 326 CI Auto * Sharp See original listing. This strategy fell apart when our tires started losing treads early in the race and we lost considerable time. Three more examples were produced and prepared for the Le Mans 24 Hours, while Ford's championship hopes rested on the older GT40s and the new GT40-derived Mirages to gain points in the intervening races. Just before 4pm, it started to drizzle again. Up against them was Ed Hugus’ modified Ferrari 275 GTB and the Equipe Nationale Belge ran its 250 LM. This year a new customer team, the Ecurie Savin-Calberson was supported by Alpine, with former Index winner Roger Delageneste. The biggest news was the walkout of Ferrari's lead driver John Surtees. 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The other Porsches came in 4th to 7th led by Siffert/Davis, who also claimed the Index of Performance. For Le Mans, we decided to set a pace for ourselves. At the finish: "the idea was that the leading GT40s would cross the line together, but in practice, it wasn't possible to have a dead heat. "[51], Rumors of a movie adaptation of the book, an Amazon best seller,[52] circulated from 2013 to 2015. [55], A 2016 documentary film, produced and directed by Americans Nate Adams[56] and comedian Adam Carolla,[57] features the Le Mans rivalry between Ferrari and Ford. Recrutement | Several cars of the original 24-hours race have survived and have been restored to their former glory. Tim Considine. Guichet had just spun his Ferrari in the rain and got away when Buchet arrived and crashed his Porsche. Several people searched for the car ever since, but it was only found back in December 2016 in Portugal by Dutchman Jeroen Booij. Ferrari took the Manufacturers' title for 1967, edging up-and-coming Porsche by two points. Retaining the same exterior dimensions as the 389 V-8, and trimming weight through the use of thin-wall casting techniques made the 326 efficient and less costly to manufacture than an all-new engine design. And most of all, in 2016, there is no Henry the Deuce, no world-altering grudge match, no Enzo, no Carroll. Ferrari didn't insult Ford. photos. 1966 saw the advent of a completely new set of regulations from the CSI (Commission Sportive Internationale – the FIA's regulations body) – the FIA Appendix J, redefining the categories of motorsport in a numerical list. The new A210 had a 1.3L Gordini-Renault engine with a Porsche gearbox making it more durable if only a little faster at 245 kp/h (150 mph). [18] Holqvist spun off with heavy damage, while Thompson was able to get back to the pits. Ken Miles, a racer who at the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hour had already won the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Daytona, was driving a Ford GT40 MkII alongside Denny Hulme. [14][41][42][43][44], At their last pitstop, the 7th-placed Porsche of Peter Gregg and Sten Axelsson was stopped by engine problems. Jochen Rindt, the previous year's winner, had moved across from Ferrari to Ford, in the new Canadian Comstock Racing Team. Each of the eight cars was painted in a colour from the Mustang road-car range. Production of what would become the ubiquitous Le Mans car had started in late 1964 and the new 911 S model had its ‘boxer’ 6-cylinder engine tuned to 160 bhp. [4], As Group 7 were ineligible for FIA events, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) opened its entry list to Group 3, 4 and 6. Two cars were entered, one by ASA and one by NART. And once again there was tragedy with a fatal accident. [16][8][17], NART also entered a long-tailed P2, rebodied by Piero Drogo and driven by last year's winner Masten Gregory with Bob Bondurant. Fourth, 20 seconds further back, was the first NART Ferrari, of Rodriguez. Just before midnight Robert Buchet aquaplaned coming over the crest at the Dunlop Bridge and crashed the French Porsche. Miles was a key member of the Shelby/Cobra race team in the early 1960s, before Shelby partnered with Ford, and was key in helping them develop the car which they took to 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. Within another hour Miles and Hulme had taken the lead. Casting complet du film Le Mans 66. James Mangold porte à l'écran le combat épique qui avait opposé Ford et Ferrari aux 24 Heures du Mans 1966. Partant de rien, il fait engager les meilleurs ingénieurs du pays, avec à la tête, Caroll Shelby, modeste préparateur automobile qui a remporté Le Mans en 1959. They joined Ford France, Scuderia Filipinetti and new privateers Scuderia Bear and Essex Wire. Casting Réalisateur. Despite finishing 26 laps behind the rest of the field. Le Mans 66 est un film réalisé par James Mangold avec Matt Damon, Christian Bale. There were also P2/P3 hybrids for the Ecurie Francorchamps (Dumay/"Beurlys") and Scuderia Filipinetti (Mairesse/Müller. The film was released on 15 November 2019. That achievement was arguably the greatest in the company's history. Racing is no longer a brutally dangerous pastime or the kind of thing that puts whole countries on the edge of their seats. The year after that, they won a third time. Painted Red with Black vinyl top. On his out-lap Spoerry lost traction and spun at the Esses wrecking the car. With the bitter failure of Ferrari's 330 P3 mirroring the failure of the Ford prototypes the previous year (and with salt rubbed into the wound with Ford's formation finish), the "Ford-Ferrari War" moved into its climactic phase. American Walt Hansgen's Ford hit water on the pit straight and aquaplaned. [8][15] Also pitting on the first lap was Paul Hawkins whose Ford broke a halfshaft going down the Mulsanne Straight lurching him sideways at nearly 350 km/h. [14][41][47], In a race of attrition it was fortunate the big teams brought such quantity – only 3 of the 13 Fords finished and only the two GTs finished from the 14 Ferraris entered. ... 455 cui engine (casting#485428). "I'm disappointed, of course, but what are you going to do about it. [15][19] At the end of the first lap Ford's cars led – Hill ahead of Gurney then Bucknum, Parkes in the Ferrari, followed by Whitmore's Ford, the Chaparral, then the GT40s of Scott and Rindt. [18] In the end Australian Brian Muir, who was in England was flown over to France. It had taken three attempts for Ford to win Indianapolis and the NASCAR Championship, and now it added the Le Mans 24 Hours. This was the first overall win at Le Mans for the Ford GT40 as well as the first overall win for an American constructor. He and team manager Eugenio Dragoni had decided that he, as the fastest Ferrari driver and driving with Mike Parkes, would act as the hare to bait and break the Fords. There was a bit of history to that. Shelby ran three cars himself for Americans Dan Gurney and Jerry Grant, Miles was now paired with New Zealander Denny Hulme after Ruby had been injured in a plane crash a month earlier. It was the first win at Le Mans for the Ford GT and the first win for an American auto manufacturer. Originally a Ferrari design by Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini before their famous walk-out from Ferrari, it was sold to the new Italian company and uprated with a 1290cc engine giving 125 bhp. [45], The Ford team's decision was a big disappointment for Ken Miles, who was aiming for the 'Endurance Racing Triple Crown'—winning Daytona-Sebring-Le Mans—as a reward for his investment in the GT40 development. Verdict du biopic avec Christian Bale et Matt Damon. While repairing the damage, officials told the team that they were disqualified for Thompson leaving the scene of a major accident. [25] But the Mini Marcos would become the 'darling of the crowds' later on in the race. As the damage was being cleared, Scarfiotti crashed his P3 into the Matra and all four cars were wrecked, although only Scarfiotti was taken to hospital, with minor bruising. At 8 am, a pit-stop for the Filipinetti Ford running 5th spilled petrol on a rear tyre. Bloodied, Ford was in too deep to quit. [14] Two months later, Ken Miles died at Riverside while testing the next generation Ford GT40 J-Car, which became the MkIV that won Le Mans in 1967. As car after car ran into trouble and dropped out, the little Marcos, by this time nicknamed 'la puce bleue' (the blue flea) wailed on. Both cars hit the wall and caught fire, and Ogier was taken to the hospital with two broken arms. This weekend we have heard a great deal about the 50th anniversary of Ford’s famous 1-2-3 win at Le Mans in 1966. [36][38], During the night the Ferraris started to suffer from overheating. However three langheck (long-tail) prototypes were also entered by the works team, driven by Hans Herrmann/Herbert Linge, Jo Siffert/Colin Davis and Udo Schütz/Peter de Klerk. Baime[48][49] titled "Go Like Hell"—the words shouted by Bruce McLaren to Chris Amon as they drove to their famous victory. Porsche also ran three regular 906s in the Sports category, two works entries as well as one for their Paris importer Toto Veuillet. [26][20] [10] The works team had a pair of closed-cockpit versions for John Surtees/Ludovico Scarfiotti and former winners Lorenzo Bandini/Jean Guichet. At 9am the Gurney/Grant car, which had been dicing for the lead with Miles & Hulme (against strict team orders), retired from 1st when the car blew a headgasket. Ferrari never won Le Mans again, but Ford wouldn't go back until 2016. [14] After only 9 laps, Rindt's Ford blew its engine at the end of the Mulsanne straight, so there would be no consecutive win. After a defective batch of transaxle shafts sank Ford's effort, Ferrari took a 1-2-3 finish with their new P4s and returned the favor of Ford's victory formation. 03/06/2019. V-8 continued as the optional engine for the Le Mans in 1964. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film received four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Sound Mixing, and won for Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing. Yet during raceweek, with news that new FIAT chairman Gianni Agnelli would be at the race, Dragoni changed the plan, putting Scarfiotti (Agnelli's nephew) in first. Christian Bale. [28][27][38], After 6 hours, heavy rain was pouring down. [13], The British team Alan Mann Racing had two cars prepared by Ford Advanced Vehicles, for Graham Hill/Dick Thompson and John Whitmore/Frank Gardner. [19][20], Chevrolet was the other player in the over 2-litre class. [7][8][9][10] The big 7-litre engine now put out 475 bhp. Publicité | Chrysler had first entered in 1925, and after 41 years it was the first win for an American car. Jon Bernthal (The Punisher) est en discussions pour rejoindre le casting de Ford v Ferrari dans le rôle de Lee Iacocca. So is the automobile itself. [32], Jo Siffert put the quickest Porsche 22nd on the grid with 3:51.0, with Nino Vaccarella's Ferrari in 24th (3:53.5) and Jo Schlesser's Matra just behind it (3:53.5). [15] There had been instant excitement when Edgar Berney spun his Bizzarrini on the start-line amongst the crowd of departing cars. As a result, when I went to Daytona for the 24 hours, paired with Bruce, I suggested to Bruce that we set a fairly conservative pace for the race, and whilst we might be running out of the top three in the early stages, we might be the only one there at the end. The Fords were further delayed as a number chose to change brake pads early. Find new and used 1966 Pontiac Le Mans Classics for sale by classic car dealers and private sellers near you. Né le 30 janvier 1974. [21], Another heavy downpour at 12.30 contributed to a big accident in the Esses. Such was the interest in Group 6 there were 43 prototypes on the starting grid and only 3 GT cars: After 2 years of its 3-year program, Ford had very little to show for its immense investment. Having debuted in 1963, the 326-cu.in. [3] It was also the debut Le Mans start for two significant drivers: Henri Pescarolo, who went on to set the record for the most starts at Le Mans; and Jacky Ickx, whose record of six Le Mans victories stood until beaten by Tom Kristensen in 2005. The determined Carroll Shelby (1932-2012) raced in the 34th Grand Prix of Endurance in Le Mans, France over the course of two days-- with one goal in … However it was a new design that was entered. Matt Damon. [6] But the new year started with promise with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby winning both the inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona and then 12 Hours of Sebring. : [37] At dusk it started to drizzle, reducing the power advantage of the big Fords, and allowing the Ferraris to keep in touch. [16][18][19], The second incident was more serious – Dick Thompson in the Alan Mann Ford Mk II collided with Dick Holqvist who was going far slower in the Scuderia Bear Ford GT40 and pulled right in front of him at Maison Blanche. By contrast, 5 of the 7 Porsches finished (including their 911 in the GT class) as did four of the six Alpines, showing much better reliability. He was supported by Huschke von Hanstein who was prepared to withdraw the Porsche team as well. Ford v Ferrari (known as Le Mans '66 in the UK and other territories) is a sports drama film distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on the rivalry between Ford and Ferrari for dominance at Le Mans. "[46] Beebe also later admitted he had been annoyed with Miles racing Gurney, disregarding team orders by potentially risking the cars' endurance. With the field covered it was now that Leo Beebe, Ford racing director, contrived to stage a dead heat by having his two lead cars cross the line simultaneously. Finally there was a P2 Spyder for Maranello Concessionaires (Attwood/Piper). Ferrari found the production requirement for homologating the P4 under Group 4 daunting and withdrew from competition in the sport-racer classes. But instead of euphoria on the podium, Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren, who were classified first, were strangely subdued. As David Greenhalgh shows, the true story of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours remains very elusive ….
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