Total 911

Vic Elford

In 1969 at Le Mans, with my co-driver Richard Attwood, we had the lead in our 917 by over 50 miles. Everyone in the Porsche pit became optimistic. We were about three hours from the finish: Le Mans was ours to win and our dream was getting closer. Suddenly, Richard was forced to bring the car to a stop in front of the pits.

The car had indeed failed as predicted, but it was absolutely nothing to do with what Porsche’s engineers thought would

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