The Start
4 o'clock in France
The Cars line up in the order of qualifying:
Red 3 Ford Mark II Gurney/Grant 3min.30.6sec (142.9 mph)
Light Blue 1 Ford Mark II Miles/Hulme
Yellow 8 Ford Mark II Whitmore/Gardner
Black 2 Ford Mark II McLaren/Amon
Ginther Ferrari 27
Silver 7 Ford Mark II G.Hill/Muir:
The count down starts ... 5 .. 4.. 3... 2 .. 1
Henry Ford drops the flag.
The drivers run across the track and jump into their cars, strap-in, start them and then get underway.
First car on the move is Whitmore yellow 8 Ford Mark II who stalls so Skip Scott in the Essex Wire Ford GT40 No.59 is the first away but before the Dunlop bridge the silver No.7 Ford Mark II of Graham Hill leads.
Graham Hill still leads at the end of lap 1 with Gurney quite a way back in red Ford Mark II No.3 followed by Bucknham Ford, Parkes Ferrari, Whitmore Ford, Bonnier Chaparral
On lap one two Fords come in the pits: Miles for a short visit to fix the door and the other Hawkins in the Donahue car for a half shaft replacement - it let go at 215 mph on the Mulsanne straight.
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