A documentary on the 1980 Le Mans 24-hour car racing classic, centred around Canadian-born Australian driver Allan Moffat making his first bid to win Le Mans
Allan Moffat was a racing hero of my youth, the way he crushed Bathurst in the 70's was inspiring. He always held himself well. He behaved like a gentleman, was honest and modest with the media and was impossible not to like. He was not the most popular of racing drivers in Australia at the time, but he was never participating in a popularity contest.
Damn, first endurance race at Le Mans in a widowmaker 935. I knew Allan was brave as a driver, but he must have balls the size of planets to take this on...
A full on professional production like this(& a damn good one I think) surely got permission to use the Moroder music in the film so what then? His record co reneg'd the agreement re putting it on TH-cam? Or perhaps the TH-cam copyright police did this in error? 🙄 This isn't some big money maker it's merely a great documentary for info purposes. Really a shame the many sections of great race audio GONE. I imagine the master tapes may be lost forever or it'd sure be worth swapping in some good royality-free music. Not perfect but a great film - & btw that merit has nothing to do w/Moroder's music in it or not!
The scene with the marshal sweeping the track just before the race start was the result of one of the course cars, out on a sighting lap to report track conditions to race control, binned it on the lap and really annoyed the rep from Porsche...
I grew up rallying the Mazda rotaries in the 70’ and now am a classic Porsche man. Great to see the Porsche’s and the RX7’s giving their all at Le Mans. Best feeling in the world is a rotary singing at 8,000 revs or a 1985 911 on song when the cam comes in. You know you are alive.
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I would say this brilliant film is almost second to THE actual Le Mans film if it wasn’t for the sound dropouts after half an hour. Still, I absolutely love this era of my favourite 935s which flame out on the down changes for corners. I remember them at Silverstone just before their Le Mans Fantastic to follow the close up look of these teams. Group 5 Kremer cars rule! Thank you for posting...one to keep.
Barbour Racing. A great american racing organization. IMSA running as a class in Le Mans. Maybe I am wrong, but Dick Barbour ran 935 Coca Cola with Paul Newman in 77. Material is superb!
Édition très animée cette année là, avec la pluie qui a failli décimer le plateau en début d'épreuve .... L'équipe Dick Barbour avait de sacrés pilotes 👍🏻
What's wrong with Giorgio Moroder 's music of the "midnight express" movie? Didn't pay royalties ? Everybody was listening to that music back to 1980 ;-)
Something weird went down for sure. Either his record co or the TH-cam copyright police got a little heavy handed. This isn't some money maker but a documentary for info purposes, & a full-on production like this surely got permission. Reneg'd trying to get more $ or TH-cam are my guesses. 🙄
WOW silhouette cars this radical are all I need - it would be cheap & presumably not as dangerous now given modern materials - instead we have GT3s with much of the curb weight, less rubber, and less HP than their street equivalents
He did fine. Decent times, easy on the car and kept it between the lines. that is all an backup endurance racer is supposed to do. If they were in the running late they would have given it the beans.
Nope, just with some Aussies. Lots of us always had enough respect to know the place is in France so it ought to sound french. Interesting to see Moff out jogging, didn't know he was into being fit.
Ian B fair enough on the pronunciation. As for Moff, well, he doesn’t look like he’s done much running, and that tracksuit looks suspiciously new. Very interesting to see this doco.
40 years of development and now very different cars to shave 54 seconds off a lap... And they're pretty much flat chat all the time now... This sort of era of the big Le Mans sports cars was probably the fastest ever, but you really had to work to drive them and having a crash was a very, very bad idea...
@@jimmytweedale2191 Yes, it is just crazy. Of course, the LMP1 cars today are rather hampered for top speed by the regulations, but even if they weren't there really wouldn't be much of a difference in top speed between them and the current cars. As the Bugatti Veyron rather proved, it's very difficult and extremely energy intensive to break the 240-250mph barrier on the road and just not practical for a competitive race car...
that's my dad @12:09 in the RX7. rare videoshot of the car
What was your dads name and what year was it
Thats very cool was he on a US team and how did they do. Whats your dads name. You must have heard some great stories on his adventures.
Ernesto Soto?
Alan Moffat also used to race an RX7 in Australian touringcar racing.
Special car with that rotary engine.
Awesome!
Allan Moffat was a racing hero of my youth, the way he crushed Bathurst in the 70's was inspiring. He always held himself well. He behaved like a gentleman, was honest and modest with the media and was impossible not to like. He was not the most popular of racing drivers in Australia at the time, but he was never participating in a popularity contest.
Damn, first endurance race at Le Mans in a widowmaker 935. I knew Allan was brave as a driver, but he must have balls the size of planets to take this on...
Bell said, some days you had the 935, and other days it had you...
man i love the liveries of this era. colorful and swooping stripes, so bright their almost silly. awesome.
In the 80's everything was trashy, the 70's was classy. Now the 80's classy and everything modern is trashy.
That goodness for TH-cam so we can reflect back to these classic races 👍
Wonderful footage, that penske 512 getting sideways is a treat.The 935s look so planted,just great stuff.
Love those 935s. The Apple 1980 livery! I had the #70 car as an RC car. Great times. Excellent video.
I now have six of these in H.O. slot cars.
Those Porsche 935 K3's are just so, so, so beautiful.
Thanks for sharing. Great motorsport documentaries are hard to find.
Best guess... the audio issues have to deal with the Georgio Moroder copyright on the music. Great video nevertheless. Beautiful 935s.
A full on professional production like this(& a damn good one I think) surely got permission to use the Moroder music in the film so what then? His record co reneg'd the agreement re putting it on TH-cam? Or perhaps the TH-cam copyright police did this in error? 🙄
This isn't some big money maker it's merely a great documentary for info purposes. Really a shame the many sections of great race audio GONE. I imagine the master tapes may be lost forever or it'd sure be worth swapping in some good royality-free music. Not perfect but a great film - & btw that merit has nothing to do w/Moroder's music in it or not!
Moffat was our RX 7 hero in Australia in the early 80’s and it great to see him in the Porsche racing against the RX7’s at Le Mans
He was so mad about the Black Flag Incident!
This is just as good as the BBC documentary on the '81 race...
What a fantastic look back. Thanks for this vid!
Great stuff. Truly miss those days.
Thank you always starving for vintage racing film especially Le Mans much appreciated.
The scene with the marshal sweeping the track just before the race start was the result of one of the course cars, out on a sighting lap to report track conditions to race control, binned it on the lap and really annoyed the rep from Porsche...
Lol at jogging while wearing a collared shirt and glasses
It was 1980 dude! You were still in diapers.
Thought the beginning was the start of a spoof documentary, after 5 minutes unfortunately it isn't....
Great vid. Thanks a bunch for posting it up.
I grew up rallying the Mazda rotaries in the 70’ and now am a classic Porsche man. Great to see the Porsche’s and the RX7’s giving their all at Le Mans. Best feeling in the world is a rotary singing at 8,000 revs or a 1985 911 on song when the cam comes in. You know you are alive.
Enjoyed that very much. Thanks for posting!
This is Full Contact Kiwi Racing on dirt..1500kg steel chassis ,500hp Toyota/Nissan/Ford/Chevy. 4.2lt V8 race motors.- [240ci].!!!. NZ Super-stock Champs. th-cam.com/video/Kaf3JwAfAiQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SpeedwayTheInsideDirt
Working;= th-cam.com/video/CfSFfgZdUx0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=CharlieReville
Alan Moffat is a legend!
I would say this brilliant film is almost second to THE actual Le Mans film if it wasn’t for the sound dropouts after half an hour. Still, I absolutely love this era of my favourite 935s which flame out on the down changes for corners. I remember them at Silverstone just before their Le Mans Fantastic to follow the close up look of these teams. Group 5 Kremer cars rule! Thank you for posting...one to keep.
Great video and look back, 935's rule. It's crazy how far its changed in a relatively short space of time.
Make LeMans great again!
Great Stuff! Thx for sharing
so nice!!
rondeau, porsche,...wow!!
Barbour Racing. A great american racing organization. IMSA running as a class in Le Mans. Maybe I am wrong, but Dick Barbour ran 935 Coca Cola with Paul Newman in 77. Material is superb!
So how much audio did we loose with the muted section? Just music, or anything important?
Top Video. Vielen Dank .
Wow Allen jogging like James May wishes he could
What a great era of racing! The cars were so unique and less tech makes it have more of a raw feel
lol the way he runs.
34:50 a Porsche with a problematic 2nd gear? You don't say!
Édition très animée cette année là, avec la pluie qui a failli décimer le plateau en début d'épreuve ....
L'équipe Dick Barbour avait de sacrés pilotes 👍🏻
Great upload. I knew a little about Moffat’s Le Mans but I’ve never seen this.
26:18 Good drift!)
13:07 whoa!
"You can lose a lot more than the race," Brian Redman
I was enjoying that despite the sound cutting out...................
thank you! they just dont make videso like this anymore....
It's a real shame the Whittington bros were too smart to film their effort the same year,this is a great candid video tho,
11:55 definitely one of the best drifts at le mans ever
Fully sideways in a Ferrari 512 BB LM. There's not many drivers can say they did that and lived to tell the tale...
Nice to hear the 512BBs were quick enough to keep up with a 935.
Lol, I wonder what happened to Brian Redman that he was missing a tooth?
He was missing more than one tooth. Maybe a recent shunt? Bizarre to see him looking like that..
is there a version available with full sound features ?
What's wrong with Giorgio Moroder 's music of the "midnight express" movie? Didn't pay royalties ? Everybody was listening to that music back to 1980 ;-)
Something weird went down for sure. Either his record co or the TH-cam copyright police got a little heavy handed. This isn't some money maker but a documentary for info purposes, & a full-on production like this surely got permission. Reneg'd trying to get more $ or TH-cam are my guesses. 🙄
WOW silhouette cars this radical are all I need - it would be cheap & presumably not as dangerous now given modern materials - instead we have GT3s with much of the curb weight, less rubber, and less HP than their street equivalents
Would be much better with SOUND!
Not just a man, it is THE Man (Le Mans)
Man too bad the audio of the races cut
I kinda like hearing the cars fly by
Just skip a little fwd and sounds is perfect
He looks like one of the German soldiers from the TV Series 'Allo 'Allo!
✌️🤠💥🌟
Sound keeps cutting out, once the race starts, ruining the ace footage.
The music is the worst part and it can lead to a copyright strike as well.
@@Finn-McCool Yep...its annoying hearing it muted but otherwise risk the video taken down.
Rahal!
This RX7 12:08, 28:22
Allan not cut out for it, should have gave me a call
He did fine. Decent times, easy on the car and kept it between the lines. that is all an backup endurance racer is supposed to do. If they were in the running late they would have given it the beans.
Shame the music cutting out spoiled the whole film...
I cant believe they muted the music.
WTF.
Copyrighted maybe? Probably didnt want to risk getting the video taken down.
Not anymore tho.. before, anyone with enough money and insanity, could buy a seat in a team, and take on the challenge.. no so much now
Car still has Bobby Rahals name on it from Sebring. Garretson and Rahal won.
Only racecar sponsored by Apple Computer to date. -U10
3 Porsche 924s 935s 936 a few years later 956 then 962 Porsche ruled Lemans
Do we really have to mute the frigging music? Doesnt even sound like anything chart related ffs
Team Combover
looks more like a Porsche-BMW challenge
@35:31 DILLA DILLA DILLA BEATS BEATS BEATS
The muted parts kinda ruins the experience... 😕
I assume the music that would have normally played in the areas that are muted are probably copyrighted?
Yes. It would not allow upload without removing them.
so silly from youtube -____-
Seems silly from TH-cam since the documentary makers obviously had the rights and the music is part of the documentary.
The way Alan pronounces Le Mans is completely unacceptable.
Toby McVinn 😂 that’s how it was pronounced in Australia in the 1970’s.
Surprised he didn't bother to learn the track, it's hardly complex?
Nope, just with some Aussies. Lots of us always had enough respect to know the place is in France so it ought to sound french. Interesting to see Moff out jogging, didn't know he was into being fit.
Ian B fair enough on the pronunciation. As for Moff, well, he doesn’t look like he’s done much running, and that tracksuit looks suspiciously new. Very interesting to see this doco.
@@Toby_the_Glen when you raced at lemams did you learn the track? When did you do it?
... Don't you mean "The test of Le Man"? ;)
4 minutes 11 seconds is the average time, the top speed for an LMP1 car today is 3 minutes 17 seconds lol
40 years of development and now very different cars to shave 54 seconds off a lap...
And they're pretty much flat chat all the time now...
This sort of era of the big Le Mans sports cars was probably the fastest ever, but you really had to work to drive them and having a crash was a very, very bad idea...
@@gosportjamie oh yeah, im not disputing that at all, I was just saying its insane lol
@@jimmytweedale2191 Yes, it is just crazy. Of course, the LMP1 cars today are rather hampered for top speed by the regulations, but even if they weren't there really wouldn't be much of a difference in top speed between them and the current cars. As the Bugatti Veyron rather proved, it's very difficult and extremely energy intensive to break the 240-250mph barrier on the road and just not practical for a competitive race car...
3.17 with the 2 chicanes....
The Footage, Thnx, AUDIO? Meh...
Love this
Also good to see some guys with a hairline looking the way mine is headed.
He looks so unathletic... just watching him run is brutal
It was the 1980s. That's how everyone 'jogged' back then. Painful to watch though!
He is white !!!!!😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😎😎😎😎🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🇺🇸
at 14 minutes.. how loose his helmet fits.. that couldn't have been good for safety
The best scenes are without sound. That's shit.
for christ sake at least pronounce "Le Mans" properly
Tehluhport
Was this the only time Apple sponsored a car?
Yea
This is the drug smugler Apple sponsored 935?
Bob Garretson was never convicted of drug dealing, that was the Whittington brothers