The Making of Le Mans
A 14-minute behind-the-scenes mini-doc on the making of the film Le Mans.
Steve McQueen’s view—Porsche 917K
From the movie, LeMans. This is the same car driven by John Thomas that is featured in the sound files recorded by Mike Parris at Riverside International Raceway in 1980. The first audio file was posted before, but the second one, Four hot laps around Riverside, was recently acquired from driver John Thomas. Great in-car…
Mike Parris with Otis Chandler’s Porsche 917s at Riverside
By lap four, Thomas was bringing it hard through the esses, down to first in turn six and on the throttle to the off-camber turn seven. He was laughing out of seven and kept both of us grinning from ear to ear, just hearing the big twelve rev.
Sounds of a Porsche 917K
Mike Parris had a several lap ride in a Porsche 917 at the Riverside International Raceway before it became a shopping mall.