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Officially licensed with the ACO (Automobile Club de l'Ouest), the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this sumptuous book, Le Mans 24 Hours: The Official History 1970-1979, is the second title in Haynes' decade-by-decade series on the world famous endurance race.
The decade began with the first Le Mans victories by Porsche, whose awesome 917 racing car, capable of more than 240mph, established a distance record that would stand for almost four decades. One of a hat-trick of wins by Matra, effectively the French national team, was achieved in a famously frantic, head-to-head duel with Ferrari. In 1975, the oil crisis led the ACO to run its race to a 'fuel formula', and it was won by the Ford-supported Gulf-Mirage team.
Porsche, using motorsport to develop its turbocharging technology, won again in 1976 and in 1977, when Jacky Ickx produced one of the greatest drives ever seen in motor racing anywhere. A massive effort by Renault, again with a turbocharged engine, delivered success in 1978. The decade closed, as it had started, with a soaking wet race that was won by Porsche.
Le Mans 24 Hours: The Official History 1970-1979 is a 10-year chronicle describes events as they unfolded during each of the races, and the triumphs and tribulations experienced by the participants. The reader will learn about the ever-changing regulations that governed the races, and follow the technical advances made by innovative competitors as they strove to win the biggest prize in motor racing. The results and statistics have been compiled from fresh research, and are accompanied by more than 350 outstanding photographs, many of them published here for the first time.
This Le Mans 24 Hours series will run to a total of eight lavishly illustrated books covering every race since its inception in 1923.
The Author
Quentin Spurring has reported the Le Mans 24 Hours on 24 occasions. He has been the editor of the British magazines Competition Car, Autosport, Racecar Engineering and The Paddock, the press officer of Graham Hill's Formula 1 team, and is the European Motorsports Correspondent of AutoWeek. His books have included Grand Prix! Rare Images of the First 100 Years, Formula 1 in Camera 1980-89, and tributes to Jim Clark, Gilles Villeneuve and Ronnie Peterson. He lives in Sanderstead in Surrey.
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