Le Mans (film)

Le Mans is a 1971 action film directed by Lee H. Katzin, starring Steve McQueen. It features footage from the actualHours of Le Mans auto race in June 1970.

Michael Delaney McQueen spots racing rival Belgettis widow Lisa Elga Andersen buying flowers he then drives his 1970 Porsche 911S to the scene of the accident which killed her husband. He has a flashback of Belgetti losing control of his Ferrari just in front of Delaney, who also crashes.Lisa Belgetti likely thinks that Delaney is to blame for the death of her husband. At the next years race, she appears downcast next to her new boyfriend, Claude Aurac Luc Merenda. Afterhours of racing, Erich Stahler spins his Ferrari at Indianapolis Corner, causing his teammate Claude Aurac to veer off the track in a major accident. Delaney is distracted by the flames of Auracs car and suffers an accident of his own. He tries to avoid a slower car and collides with the crash barrier, writing off his Porsche. Although these are separate accidents, they were so close in time and place that it appears to observers that the accidents are linked. Delaney and Aurac survive, but Auracs injuries are far worse. In the hospital after the crashes, Delaney consoles Lisa Belgetti and rescues her from a horde of reporters. After he puts her in a waiting car, a journalist asks Delaney whether his and Auracs accident can be compared to the one with Belgetti in the previous years race. Delaney does not respond. ........

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