Not a documentary or you'd actually SEE the cars that came in first, second and third for more than a fraction of a second! The best racing film by a country mile, though, and I was there, soaking wet, nearly run over by Steve in the sawn off GT40 camera car. (Continuing a tradition I'd begun at Zandvoort in '66 where they were filming "Grand Prix").
Sad there's no extras on the DVD. There was a good "Making of...." (including Derek Bell's fire, etc) at the time which has not been seen for years. You can get the video of Chad McQueen's Speedvision documentary on the film (NTSC format) which is quite good but doesn't give you the warts and all view you get from the excellent Keyser/Williams book.
I must admit that I've always thought the McQueen crash is the weakest part of the film as the 917 body is too wide for the Lola's track, you can see the bottom of the yellow bodywork with number 11 on it, and it doesn't move right, somehow. (That and the fact that the last two laps are run in the wrong order in terms of the sequence of corners with the 22 car getting clean, then dirty, then clean again - tragic after all the obsessive trouble McQueen had taken over the rest of the film).
But what the hell, the start sequence and the racing sequences are just awesome.
