{"id":3170,"date":"2018-08-28T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:16:29","slug":"le-mans-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/le-mans-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Le Mans&#8221; crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, I&#8217;m here today because of Steve McQueen&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Le Mans&#8221;<\/em>. I think I first watched it in 1976 or 77, and the film really marked me. It&#8217;s the sole reason why I love so much the 917K and why I like Porsches in general. And the same reason why Ferrari will never be my favorite brand &#8211; the 512S was not the &#8220;hero car&#8221; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3171\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wink.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\">.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly filmed during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-917k-23-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1970 Le Mans<\/a> race and released in 1971, you just can&#8217;t compare the quality of the film to something modern. But back then, Michael Delaney&#8217;s crash really impressed the kid that I was:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LaTW7-uOrq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now I know that my beloved 917K was not harmed, since they used a <a href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/17\/43\/c5\/1743c50bf2523ad49268d6a9c7c5402c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lola T70 GT Mk. III<\/a> disguised as Delaney&#8217;s Porsche. Seems like even back then a 917K was much more expensive then a T70. But that film was what got me interested in race cars and Le Mans in general.<\/p>\n<p>Think I&#8217;ll have to watch it again <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/popcorn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, I&#8217;m here today because of Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8220;Le Mans&#8221;. I think I first watched it in 1976 or 77, and the film really marked me. It&#8217;s the sole reason why I love so much the 917K and why I like Porsches in general. And the same reason why Ferrari will never be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/le-mans-crash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Le Mans&#8221; crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-film","category-history","category-le-mans","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}