[LM24] Greatest Fightback

[Victor_RO]

Originally Posted by isynge

Just watched the 1984 footage and at the end there's the point made that the winning Joest 956 was 31st at the end of the first hour.

So - is there scope for a greatest fight back thread - what's the furthest back at the end of hour 1 (or hour 6 maybe?) that's resulted in a win or a genuinely surprisingly result?

Happy to sponsor a very small prize to be awarded at the members meeting in 2013...

One year previously ('83), the review video mentions that the #1 Rothmans Porsche (Ickx/Bell) was 44th or something by the time of the first round of pitstops, around the 1h mark, and it wound up finishing second, less than a minute behind the dying #3 Porsche which ran the last lap without any water in the engine.

[gregtummer]

It didn't win, but it was stunning to watch the pace of Peugeot #1 at the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.

He eventually unlapped himself before blowing up!