“RETURN TO LE MANS” 1967 24 HOURS OF LE MANS SPORTS CAR RACING HIGHLIGHTS FORD MK IV GT40 XD48164
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"Return to Le Mans", produced by Allegro Film Productions for Ford documents the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race in Le Mans, France, during which AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney became the first and only All-American team to win. Several Ford models, especially the MK IV, are highlighted.
00:08 Signs: "Bardahl, Cinzano, Martini & Rossi, Bougies, Huiles Renault" signs alongside race track. Cars race as crowd watches. 00:14 Driver of "1" Ford MK IV sports car waves from driver seat. 00:17 Men surrounded by media crowd shake hands. 00:21 "2" Ford MK IV car driver waves as "3" tails behind. 00:24 Race track lined with audience. 00:28 "Return to Le Mans" overlay. 00:38 Zoom on map graphic, Paris to Le Mans route. 00:44 Victory Road roadside landscapes: cotton, pastoral fields and florals. 00:58 Le Mans, France buildings along Sarthe River. 01:05 Le Mans sign. Pan to cars driving down road. 01:10 Cars and bikers ride slowly down city street. 01:15 People dine in outdoor seating along street. 01:16 Van "Aux Dames de France" drives by. 01:23 Group of bikers cycle alongside cars in busy street. 01:36 Police and photographers stand by race track. 01:40 "57" Ford MK IIB drives to side while Mario Andretti, Italian-born American driver, one of the most decorated American drivers, stands by. 01:52 Dan Gurney, American driver, examines his car. 01:59 AJ Foyt, American driver, smiles and speaks. 02:07 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car designer, speaks. 02:11 Foyt and Gurney talk together. 02:21 Racetrack stands lined with national flags above crowd. 02:23 Pan over cars being inspected. 02:32 Foyt strapped into driver's seat. 02:40 "1" car drives away. 02:45 Montage: Cars race down track: Ferrari, Porsche, Ford Mark II and Mark IV. 03:17 Peugeot garage interior. 03:22 Mechanics inspect car and replace windshield. 03:59 Crowd along motorway. Signs: Champion, Mobil, Motul. 04:07 Cars, drivers and racing team along track. 04:18 Crowd admire cars and take pictures. 04:35 Drivers talk together and wait for race to start. 04:57 Drivers run to cars. 05:10 Cars drive off starting grid. 05:38 Cars race under Dunlop Bridge. 05:52 Woman in crowd points. 05:53 Cars drive around turn. 05:55 Aerial tracks racing cars. 06:17 Cars take sharp turn labeled "Dunlop" and "Total". 06:37 Montage: Cars racing. Signs: "Antar" "BP" "Gulf" "Shell" "Martin". 07:09 Cars complete first lap. 07:27 Montage: Close up of cars racing. 07:43 Car takes wide turn and smoke billows from crash. 07:54 Car weave around turns. 08:15 People watch from scaffolding around building. 08:17 "1" car takes turns and speeds ahead of pack. 08:55 Foyt chews and watches race. 09:01 Ford "1" parks. 09:08 Mechanics change wheels. 09:14 Foyt and Gurney talk. 09:17 Man watches. 09:21 Foyt enters car and drives off. 09:31 Gurney takes off helmet. 09:49 Cars drive down track. Signs: Ferodo, Lucas. 10:06 Sunset silhouettes crowd. 10:14 Cars race down dark track. 10:49 Headlights. 10:55 Backlit signs, clock at midnight. 10:57 Crowd. 10:57 Montage of amusement park rides. 11:13 People drink beer. 11:20 Car lights swerve in dark. 11:36 Morning race track. 11:51 Crowd, several cigarette smokers, watch. 12:00 Crashed "6" car along track as cars pass. 12:06 "Ford Bat Les Records" new headline, paper on ground in tent park. 12:12 Men picnic on grass. 12:16 Montage: People resting among tent park. 12:22 Crowd walk. 12:24 Crowd stand around podium of religious service. 12:43 Cars racing montage. 12:50 "2" car slows with top hanging loose. 13:08 "2" car is repaired by pit crewmen. 13:14Mechanic repairs roof. 13:42 "2" leaves pits. 13:57 Montage of racing. 14:26 Clock turns on post. 14:30 Miles sign: "Record du tour: 12345" and current lap "121242". 14:37 Cars montage. 15:06 Clock rotates. 15:08 Race montage. 15:56 Crowd. Flags billow in wind. 16:00 Checkered flag waved as "1" car finishes race. 16:20 Gurney climbs onto car as it cruises down track. 16:28 Foyt and Gurney celebrate with a bottle of wine. 16:38 Crowd cheers. 16:40 Crowd rushes car on track. 17:01 Police hold back excited crowd. 17:03 Gurney and Foyt spray champagne into crowd. 17:28 Crowd celebrates.
The Ford GT40 was based upon the Lola Mk6, and engineered and built by Ford Advanced Vehicles. The Mk IV model was designed and built in the United States. Ford specifically made it to compete in endurance races including the 24 hours of Le Mans. The Mk2 beat Ferrari in 1966 and Ford went on to win in '67-'69.
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I was there all those years ago and remember the sights, sounds and frantic pit work. Great to see it again.
Great old footage of the way it once was.
The Legends of racing all are there...
One of the good reasons I'm a Ford fan, the Ford Victory and my hero Ken Miles
We get it...... You love the movie......
Miles was british.....
Ken miles didn’t race in ‘67 though
Miles didn’t race in ‘67 though
After his meager ten laps of practice, the press solemnly asked 'rookie' AJ Foyt his thoughts about the track and what must surely have been an awesome an humbling experience. He said: "It's just a little-old piece of country road." He then proceeded to build a seven-lap lead in his first stint of the race. No ordinary rookie, was AJ Foyt. Dan Gurney invented the ritual of spraying champagne from the winners podium, after Le Mans 1967. And, the Ford Mk IVs appeared _only_ in Sebring 1967 and Le Mans 1967, winning them both. Many stars aligned to produce a genuine 'legendary victory'.
The MKIV also competed at Sebring earlier in the year, which it won in the hands of Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren.
@@stevengaitt2308
Yep, you're right. OP edited to correct the mistake.
Love it From Colombia 🇨🇴☘👑 Gt40 Power Mark The Master Key
That car is on display at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. An interesting feature of the car is a small dome in the roof. That was necessary to provide clearance for Dan Gurney's helmet. Gurney was 6' 2" tall and needed some extra headroom.
I absolutely love your videos! I was just a kid in the 60's. This brings me back!!! Thanks again!!
The GT40 is my an amazing bit of automotive engineering.
Wish I had had the money for one of the Tribute cars Ford released in 2005 I think it was.
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8:14 They're hanging onto the poles of a carousel-now that's dedication!
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Wow
That sums it up perfectly in one word. Cheers
Great film great drivers great car great race power by Ford thanks
Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt drove the J5 Mk IV to a resounding victory, totally trouncing Ferrari. Sadly, 1967 was the swan song for prototypes with engines over 3.0 liters. The FIA, in its spiteful ways, legislated the Ford Mk IV, Ferrari 330 P4 and Chaparral 2F out of existence.
This car is on display at The Henry Ford museum now
But they unintentionally allowed in the glorious Ferrari 512S/M and the Porsche 917. What followed in 1972 to 1975 was the real disappointment. Then things got exciting again.
Ford won at LeMans in 68-69 through private entrant John Wyer with GT-40’s. In fact the exact same GT-40 won both years.
@@Loulovesspeed Not to mention John Marsh! : )
@@johnmarsh2078 - What do you mean "unintentionally" allowed them in?? They met the requirements to run. Why was 1972-1975 a real disappointment?
Fantastic. Also my birth year. Ford vs Ferrari is a great recent movie depicting this time period.
In thi race Dan Gurney started the tradition of the winner(s) spraying the onlookers with champagne .
And Foyt had already won the 1967 Indianapolis 500. While Gurney would a short while later provide AAR's maiden victory at Spa at a record pace. 1967 was a year to remember. Andretti winning the Daytona 500 as well.
@@maxmulsanne7054 And Bruce McLaren winning the CanAm championship,
And Denny Hulme winning the F1 championship .
Well Foyt did all the work, so cafe racer gurney had to contribute SOMETHING.
I never knew there was a white 330p4 until I saw this video.
Fantastic
Fantastic
Fantastic
"Il più grande scontro automobilistico mondiale dell'anno, Ferrari e Ford. Il piccolo artigiano, la grande industria......" (Piero Casucci - RAI).
Amazing video, thank you very much!
fascinating races and video!
I watched The 24 hrs at La Man's on wide world of sports showing the cars they drove and the great driver's who raced
Great vid! Thank You!!
This is goldddd
bellissimo filmato con i prototipi più belli di sempre, comunque le Ford per vincere erano 7.000 di cilindrata contro le Ferrari 4.000 di cilindrata...a parità di cilindrata non avrebbero mai vinto !!!
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, some interesting facts about "modern" days of Le Mans:
1) the traditional Le Mans start was abolished after 1969, as a result of John Woolfe's fatal accident on the first lap, and because of then Belgian racing ace Jacky Ickx staging a safety protest of the customary procedures of drivers running to their cars & immediately taking off - only later attempting to fasten their seat belts while steering with their knees driving on the Mulsanne Straight.
When the start flag was dropped Ickx merely strolled to his car while his competitors ran to their rides (there is footage of this on YT btw).
2) same event - Le Mans 1969 - Jacky Ickx along with co-driver Jackie Oliver managed to win the race by a mere 100yds in front of the 2nd place Porsche 908 driven by Hans Herman and Gérard Larrousse.
This was the closet finish in Le Mans history without the influence of a staged race finish.
3) In the movie _'Le Mans'_ (1971) Steve McQueen's quote of _"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting"_ is often mistakenly thought to have been derived from the high-wire daredevil Karl Wallenda, _"Life is on the wire, the rest is just waiting."_
Wallenda's quote was recorded sometime during an interview after the 1962 Detroit tragedy.
The original orientation of such philosophy came from none other than Rudolf Caracciola, one of the greatest pre-WWII GP drivers there ever was...
_"To race is to live; all the rest is simply waiting."_
- Rudi Caracciola
(1901-1959) 🌿✝️🏁
Edit: ....
4) For you _'Farce vs. Ferrari'_ fans, _THE_ Absolute Triple Crown Champion belongs to one driver now for nearly 40yrs - *Graham Hill.*
WDC of 1962 & 1968
1966 winner of the Indianapolis 500
1972 winner of the 24hrs of Le Mans
That's not including his five wins at Monte Cario, which in some racing fraternities is considered as a composition of the _'Triple Crown'_ achievements.
So for you Ken Miles loyalists strung-out-on-stupid from Hollywood's false narratives, you can buzz off somewhere else before you attempt to poison this comment section with all your nonsense as you have done with other Le Mans YT videos already.
@Max Mulsanne - First of all you must understand that the "Triple Crown" is an UNOFFICIAL title - look it up, and even then, the Graham Hill TC was changed from its original definition of the Indy 500, the 24 hrs. of Le Mans and the Monaco GP. The Monoco GP was later dropped and replaced by the F1 Championship. There are other "triple crown" creations adapted by various racing entities such as the Endurance Racing TC, the Indy Car Racing TC, the NHRA TC, the Australian Motorsport TC. While Hill's accomplishment was the first TC, that does not in and of itself make it the ABSOLUTE TC. It all comes down to a case of semantics.
None of that sanctimonious bullshit changes the fact that Miles was screwed out of the win. As for the "triple crown", that's a subjective "crown" at best. Was it ever officially designated by anyone other than racing journalists? I've been following racing since the 1950s, and never heard of anything like it until Graham Hill did it.
@@tomsmith5216 The original and only official Triple Crown doesn't even belong to auto racing - it was created by horse racing in the U.S in the mid to late 1920s. It includes The Kentucky Derby, The Belmont Stakes and the Preakness. All the so called auto racing triple crowns are completely unofficial and as you said were thought up by the motor racing journalist world.
@Max Mulsanne You are confusing the "Triple Crown of Motorsports" with the unofficial "Triple Crown of Endurance Racing". Do your research properly before commenting.
@@Loulovesspeed There is also a Triple Crown in baseball: highest batting aversge, most homeruns, and most rbis. That's been around for decades, too.
A J. had a very good 1967
First year of the Chaparral 2F. Given another year the 2f would have been the winner.
Well not all rookies are as great as A.J. Foyt. Greatest. Rookie. Ever.
They used belts to fix McLaren’s car. One of them was Shelby’s!
Plurals do not have apostrophes.
@@larrysmith6797 it’s not a plural you illiterate. It’s a possessive!
Is that The Deuce (Henry Ford II) at 9:19?
i was there
@11:13
Midnight Largers!
Ferrari(330 P4) won championship in 1967, won Daytona and le mans finish 2. and 3.
Those were proper sports car’s nowadays they all look the same
My parents were there
Wasn’t aware they started the race with the Italian flag that year (see it at 4min 56sec).
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Le Mans is not in the "South of France!"
This film belittles Fords great achievement by so resolutely omitting the names of other marques .
Surely Chaparral and Lola deserved a mention ? But then that’s corporate pr for you...
I liked the ‘cobbled streets’ so well represented by high quality tarmac!
Other marques just don't matter. No time for losers.
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Why does the narrator keep talking about the 'South of France'??
That's hundreds of miles away.
If you're not French, everything south of Paris is the "South of France".
I am from Le Mans 😁
@Rocco Cars XD it’s was the race today and yesterday it’s was very cool
@Rocco Cars sur m’y friend come it’s a pleasur
"South of France" 😂 I thought americans were better at geography back in those days
Ford had to pay millions just for ferrari to beat them in daytona😂
Door falls off after less than a day of driving; how ford can you get?
Well the Brits like to take credit for the chassis lol
Too bad this is sort of a Ford propaganda film. It would have been nice to see some more film on the Ferrari P4s and the groundbreaking aerodynamics of the Chapparal 2F. I was there and my memories in addition to the beer tents are seeing the Chapparal 2F of Phil Hill/Mike Spence going around as the dawn was breaking. The big-block Chevy engine of the Chapparal made it sound like a tank going by - actually not dissimilar to the sound of the NASCAR Chevy in the 2023 race.
The first words, American made sports cars, wrong, they were made in the UK, shipped to the USA and modified.
The modifications are what made all the difference. Otherwise it was just a taxi cab.
So what. Who cares. Shelby blew the doors off the corvettes. Dave McDonald jumped out of the corvettes the minute Shelby called.
The MklV was made entirely in the US.
why do people attempt to act smart.......the MKIV for 1967 was 100% USA built.
220 mph=354kmh
Ronnie Buckman was clocked at 238 mph at LeMans in 1967.
The Ford GT 40 was built in Hersham, Surrey if memory serves me right. Ford paid for it and supplied the engines. None of them were ever built in the U.S.A. Typical American bullshite.
Well Ford attempted to use a Cortina engine but it wasn’t quite fast enough on the Mulsanne straight
The MK1 and MK2 were Lola desing modified by Shelby to be competitive, the MK4 is Ford designed if memory serves right
@@pontozannata8847 Correct - a few parts carried over but the MK4 was built in the USA by Kar Kraft. American drivers, American engine, American car, America tires........johnnyrvf probably still think Montgomery was a better General than Patton too. If Ike had given Patton the gasoline wasted on Market Garden we would have kicked the Nazis out of WW2 by the end of 1944.
Who paid for it? Whatever we Americans pay for is ours.
you are an idiot.........its the internet age, information is easy to get.......the MKIV was 100% usa built.
I wished Ken Miles had another go at Le Mans 🥲
He literally gave his life to develop the J car which became the mark 4.
I wish ken Miles was still alive