The movie is 1982 but you where the the 956's are...1981 race ahh

The movie was fina she's and release 82, the race was of course 81.

@Eugene Tuorto I know it says 1982, but this is actually the 1981 Le Mans 24hrs In 1982 Guy Edwards was partnered with Nick Faure and Rupert Keegan, but at 29:54 the narrator states "Three hours gone and Guy's car is running well with Villota at the wheel" - this is Emilio de Villota (father of Maria de Villota, who was badly injured during testing of a Marussia F1 car at Duxford Aerodrome in 2012. She died of cardiac arrest a year later at the age of 33) The 1981 race was also notorious for two deaths; a marshal (27:17) and Edward's friend Jean-Louis Lafosse (28:50) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans

The race was from 1981 though!

@@melodicpie Has to be, Porsche was running the 936 then. If it was 82 they would have had the 956 there and all the other Group C cars would have been there.

Popped lip?

@EagleOneM, not only did Jaguar enter the race in previous years, they also won it in 1951 (XK-120C), 1953 (C-Type) 1955, 1956 and 1957 (D-Type)

Agree with you

Nimrod the mighty warrior is a good one, being the story of the 1982 Le Mans race.

@@keithashley6298 Awesome! Thanks so much for pointing it out. I have found it, and bookmarked it for watching tonight!👍😀

@@edteach3r Hope you enjoy it sir! 🙂👍

true, but the race's appeal and story given to fans is much less impactful from like it seemed back in the days. It's safe but bland.

Improvements but now boring.

1981 race, broadcast in 82

More likely drove out 'with', rather than 'in'..!

man i feel you

@@nevercommitsuicide I'm sure his mum would say the same thing my mom did like "its better to have him not here rather than being here and miserable taking it out on us" but it doesn't help much

well spotted Erik, been there done that.

The fastest lap in 1981 was 3.34 - only about 18 seconds off today's times, nearly 40 years on...amazing!

The margin of victory at Daytona yesterday showed that. Five care on the lead lap of a corse far shorter than LeMan.

@@Penguin_of_Death the track has changed. Big chicanes were put in to slow the cars down. The times are not comparable.

The track was changed before the 1991 race, chicanes were introduced on the Mulsanne Straight by order of FIA. this due to very high speed accidents caused by tire wear at the high speeds on the straight. Specifically the fatal accidents in 81 and 86 were at the base of those chicanes So you can't compare 81 times to 2020 times, the cars now have to slow down to very slow speeds , twice , on the straight.. And even with those 2 chicanes they are still much much faster. The top speeds are lower but it doesn't matter, because the cornering speeds are waaaaaay faster now

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23:17 👍👍

Absolutely as daft as a brush, but a real gentleman and a lot of fun...

12 thousand 1981 English pounds equaled over $80 grand USD in 2021.

it is the same nowadays... if you have cash you can compete. Skills are not so important.

Back in those days it was all recorded on actual film, no electronic media at all, so editing it all together took a huge amount of time. As you say, it was the 1981 race, but the film was released in 1982 after a huge amount of production work and a lot of wrangling to get the legal permissions necessary to show the sections that didn't include the De Cadenet Lola team or Guy Edwards in the Lola...

It was the film, I saw many years later I passed the track,

Agreed. And the Mulsanne was still a full lenght straight! Over 400km/h fast...

@@jfv65 it makes think what state of mind would the drivers be in that time you know?! racing for 24hrs in ridiculous high speed taking in turns cars would eventually not work, accidents, deaths. what surprised me was that a British reporter at the time reported a fatal accident at lemans and the organisers of the Le Mans never invited him ever again.

Didn't work out to well for LaFosse though.

Last time it raced at La Sarthe it was modified so it could enter... a small hole cut in the roof. Entered by the Kremer brothers. The 917 K81 was outclassed unfortunately.

@@nicjackson5741 my point being it was unusual that a 13 year old car could qualify for a race such as LeMans. Even if it was modified.

@@bradgotch Agreed 100% Simeon.

Not without it's problems..

I just watched it wtf

You should have been there the decades before that. Surreal doesn't begin to describe it.

Yea, just like many of the cars coming out this year go as far as 2,018.

In your judgement, it's progress. In mine, it's boring.

It's the 1981 race, the programme was broadcast in 1982

Peh... the chap can't even tell a burgundy from a claret.

Are you offended ?

49 entries at Daytona on a 3.5 mile course can’t be too easy. Bathurst is no walk in the park either. Spa might be ranked as tough as well. I’d rather drive 24 hours at LeMans than be beaten senseless for 12 hours at Sebring from a driver’s point of view.

Is there a 24 hr of Nordschliefer, now that would be a challenge!

I guess you’re talking about the Nordschleife 24hour racing? There could have been only one person, Sabine Schmitz R.I.P.

He’s on the toilet right now.

@@AtheistOrphan just checked. At the pub