24H Le Mans 1999 Highlights

Le Mans... been there as a spectator in the Group C era till 1989, the last race without the chicanes on the Hunaudiéres. Exactly 10 years later I came back to watch this 99 race due to all the manufacturers involved. In 2016 I went one final time - as a competitor in the Le Mans Classic event. A dream come true 🎉

Historic battle between BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Audi, Panoz and Nissan. 1999 Le Mans will go down in history as one of the greatest races the sport has seen

Katayama wore the gloves of the late Shingo Tachi. He later said divine intervention helped him save the car.

Watching this makes me long for the old Speedvision days.

17:05 Reporter: "Tom that was a bit of a spectacular drive, you were making major headway there" Tom: "Sorry?" Reporter: "It was a great drive there you were making major headway there" Tom: "What?!?!" 😂

There is something really special about this era of LM. I don't know what it is, but def more special than current generation.

Year that Mercedes left Le Mans.

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man todays cars are amazeing but they really miss the cool factor of these cars.

interesting comments from the presenters around 2:40 regarding how closely-following the two Mercedes drivers were at high speed given the events of Webber's crash that Thursday (and second flip during warmup that very morning!) Webber's autobiography Aussie Grit detailed how, even after his second flip, Mercedes refused to entertain the notion their cars had a dangerous, fundamental aerodynamic flaw - which may explain why their two drivers here are appearing to throw caution to the wind and follow very closely. It was only a matter of a couple hours later...

10:13 Mercedes CLR starts flying

Belos tempos... good Times 💯🙅👍

It looks like the Mercedes may have just touched the curbing before it lifted off. First time I noticed that he definetly cut that corner hard

after Mercedes had lift and downforce problems in practice why werent they sorted by race day? If it wasnt for that they might have been podium finishers...

This one is when weight was ordered after the spectacular wreck from the Mercedes in this event one time ago 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

10:10

clr go boom

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