Porsche 917 – Le Mans legends remember Stuttgart's first winner
The Porsche 917 made waves on its debut, eventually marking itself out as a sports car icon – is it your 'Race car of the Century'?
The official film of the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans will be streamed live tonight (Thursday November 24) from its première at the Méga CGR cinema Saint-Saturnin, free to view at my-aco.com.
After the screening, which begins at 8pm French time, there will be a live Q&A with Neel Jani, Stéphane Sarrazin, Loïc Duval, Ford driver Dirk Müller, LMP2 racers Julien Canal, Vincent Capillaire and Timothé Buret, and Oreca head Hugues de Chaunac. The remarkable Frédéric Sausset, quadruple amputee who constested Le Mans, and his team-mates Christophe Tinseau and Jean-Barnard Bouvet will also be answering questions, so too ACO president Pierre Fillon.
View the trailer of the 85 minute film below.
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