Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi won the postponed Le Mans 24 Hours on this day in 1968, driving a JW Automotive Ford GT40. Also synonymous with Gulf and 917s, the team is a racing legend. We spoke to director John Horsman about life under 'Death Ray' John Wyer and the racing heritage underpinning the team's successes
There had been no job advertised, but he applied for one anyway. At the time John Horsman was an engineering student at Cambridge and often spent his weekends photographing motor races, frequently managing to get himself trackside without a pass. "I was never turfed out," he says, "which wouldn't happen nowadays. I was always shooting the cars, though, when I should have been taking photos of people. The cars still exist, but most of the drivers don't."
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