Turner Classic Movies...North America...running a whole slate of race-based films tomorrow, February 2, 2024. They list...
Speed
The Crowd Roars
The Big Wheel
To Please a Lady
Fireball 500
Speedway
The Racing Scene
Curtain goes up at 07:15 hours.
"Speedway" has Elvis Presley playing a NASCAR driver. It does have some interesting, if brief, clips of historic NASCAR, circa 1966, such as in the garage area and on-track footage.
"The Racing Scene" is the James Garner documentary that covers his time as a team owner in 1969. It actually has very good behind-the-scenes footage of Garner's "American International Racing" (AIR) campaigning two Lola T70 Mk3 coupes at Daytona and Sebring in 1969. There is some good, albeit brief period footage of the factory Porsche 908's vs the Wyer Gulf GT40s, but the interesting part is watching the team principals trying to keep the two Lola-Chevys going during competition. There is also period footage of Formula A/F5000 racing at Lime Rock in Connecticut, and some other segments that I can't recall now.
One of the AIR T-70s driven by Lothar Mostenbacher and Ed Leslie finished 2nd to the Penske Lola T70 driven by Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons. Roger Penske's Porsche won the Daytona 24hrs last weekend, only his 2nd victory in that race since that 1969 win 55 years ago!
Edited by Emery0323, 02 February 2024 - 00:08.