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Originally Posted by gfm
Didn't Masten Gregory/Jochen Rindt do the same in a Ferrari 330 GTO but in the 50s/60s? Just drove flat out after early problems but couldn't kill the car.
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The year was 1965, the car was a NART entered 250LM. The quote I always heard, and I don't know which driver it was attributed to, was 'It didn't feel like a 24 Hour car, so we didn't treat it that way.' In other words they were just thumping the car to try to get it to break so they could go home early. Everyone else had problems while they screamed into the lead. I am not sure winning because you beat the car to death and it survived puts it into the great drives category, but that is up to history and others I guess.
Hans Stuck's drives just about anywhere would have to go into great drives category.
robert