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Old 07-14-2006
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Re: Grand Prix Vs. Le Mans

Somewhere between Christmas and New Years there are showings of both movies at our house. Attendence is mandatory for Grand Prix and voluntary for LeMans.
GP wins for the shots of Phil Hill's footwork, shot from a folding chair, which exactly match up with film of a hot lap at the old track with the banking. LeMans loses for the slo-mo demolition of the Porsche between the guardrails under full throttle for the whole sequence because they couldn't go to clutch and brake with the remote control setup they were using.
When those are the deciding factors between movies you can't lose either way...unless you can do lap at LR under :58 and pick up quarters on your tires at track out in the uphill and West Bend.
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