Le Mans - Trailer (1971) - video Dailymotion

Two car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.

Transcript

00:00good afternoon ladies and gentlemen on this circuit the world's most famous motor race is

00:11run for 24 hours each year men and machines are put to the supreme test speed and stamina

00:21there are 55 cars and 110 drivers representing countries from all over the world they will

00:28drive day and night through sun and rain beneath his racing suit each driver must wear fireproof

00:36underwear capable of withstanding 2400 degrees fahrenheit the temperature of burning gasoline for

00:4515 seconds yellow flags and yellow lights along the circuit indicate the presence of an accident

00:51yellow meets danger no over taking and so ladies and gentlemen welcome to the most famous motor car

01:00race in the world the 38th running of the grand free of europe's efficiency for 24 hours

01:21the essence is speed the objective is winning and the danger is dying

01:50le mans where hour by hour lap after lap a man-to-man competition of champions never stops

01:56do you think it will be like a nurba ring a race between you and stahler i hope not would this be

02:02the same kind of race you had with delaney at the nurba ring well uh this is le mans it's a different

02:07thing you know and what do you think of stahler stahler i think he's probably one of the best drivers

02:13in the world do you think that you and delaney will end up having a close race here maybe he's fast

02:19i'm fast so we're always together first it's making a big thing about us yeah but it's money

02:26that's american

02:32michael

02:36careful now don't be a pain in the ass

02:39the ass area

02:49le mans at 200 miles an hour the pressure of winning and losing is tough enough explaining

02:55it to someone else makes it even tougher this isn't just a thousand to one shot this is a professional

03:02blood sport and it can happen to you and then it can happen to you again what is so important about

03:10driving faster than anyone else a lot of people go through life doing things badly

03:18racing is important to men who do it well racing it's life anything that happens before or after just waiting

03:30the men the machines the motion picture steve mcqueen stars no one else could

03:40see you