This was Le Mans' golden age man, Group C cars were absolute beasts, especially the 962.

The cars back then were absolute monsters that required men of steel to tame them!! cheers for the upload :D

I was there watching this with my best mate mathew, we were both 13yrs old and were standing on the bank just after the Dunlop bridge. It was my first time abroad and I had one of the 1yr passports you used to be able to get from the post office, great memories.

I was there that year and me and my mate was standing on the grandstand abowe the pits as the race started. But after that we went to the restaurant at Les Hunadieres. Man what a great memory in life that is! Love 24 Houres of Le Mans and thank´s for the upload. Cheers from Sweden

El pace car más veloz que vi en mi vida! Y con pista mojada!

Man what I would give to have been able to have watched Le Mans from like 63 64! I'm 31 so I didn't start getting into racing until early 2003 mabey 2004 ish I remember not long after I got serious about what hung when they came to mosport every year. Seeing as how in two hours from mosport that's when they Falken tire Porsche 911 was on its game. Audi has their prototype diesel and the Rolex sport car series was different. I loved when it when it separated but the racing now it's amazing but hey who knows what could have happened had they stayed apart and who know they would have developed and would give alot more seats for drivers to do what they love

I bet these mechanical beasts were a huge challenge to muscle around these high speed corners

Epic Le Mans race!

Le Mans always was, is and will be much more exciting than over rated F1!

How fast is that pace car going? Amazing!!!

First class footage!! Thanks for sharing!!

i love to watch when cars flying down at mulsanne straight!

That pace car is moving. I'm thinking it might roll over has ha lmao ha ha ha Love Savage Godlike ha ha lmao ha ha ha :D

1:38 look at that pacecar go.

love it... nice!!

Mulsanne Chicanes is the worse racing atrocity ever.

Pace car on it tippy toes

Great upload but have to correct you that the TWR designed Jags sponsored by Silk Cut had debuted at LM in 1986, were very quick but all retired, '87 they got one car to the finish (in 5th) but in '88 they finally won after an incredible race, 2nd place Porsche still on the same lap! Been going to LM since '82, right from the beginning of Group C, without a doubt THE golden era for the race, not just the racing itself, the atmosphere and layout of the circuit was completely different. Just as one example, those incredibly crowded pits date back to 1955 when the cars were much smaller (and slower!), there's no garage behind them so any repairs on the cars had to be carried out right there in the pitlane, unprotected from the weather and other cars, no pitlane speed limit then so the top drivers just booted it after their stop and expected others to get out of the way....happy days!

The whole pitlane looks like its a crowd of people with no open space for cars....

The start of sanitising the Dunlop Curve. It would sanitised further in the following years.

That's the correct straight damn it.

Cuando no habia chicana en mulsane, solo para valientes.

Who is the commentary crew? Seems these are the guys from all the years in this era as well as the Group C classic race of today.

Who were the Announcers

There was literally nothing to dislike. If you compare it to F1 today, they are slower, top speed a mean, they make a dreadful sound, are uglier (also than today’s F1 cars) and the amount of competitors is embarrassing if you compare the 10 F1 teams against 40 ore 50 plus cars in that era😢