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| Location | Le Mans |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 11 juin 1967 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 1960-1980 |
| Colors | Black&White |
| Collection | Endurance |
Motorsport Images has the largest motoring picture collection in the world. The archive houses approximately 18 million images of which in the region of half are black and white negatives and glass plates. The library is made up of images from the world of motor sport since it began and every conceivable road car since it's invention. This incredible archive is the result of the amalgamation of a number of previously separate archives, which are now housed under one roof.
Many of the images are published pictures from the magazines owned and bought by Haymarket over the years and the archive contains the original prints from the very first 'Autocar' issue published in 1895 right through to the present day issue. 'The Motor' archive contains more sporting images with black and white negatives, glass plate and acetate from 1924 - subjects include road cars, sprints, hill climbs, motor shows and Grands Prix.
The original Teesdale Company supplied pictures to 'MotorSport' magazine (founded in 1924) and Motoring News (founded in 1955) and has over 4 million black & white negatives of motor racing events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books. LAT now supplies the Haymarket Media Group, commercial clients, the worldwide media and agencies with motor sport coverage from around the world from Formula 1 to karting.
The 'Autosport' archive contains images from the world's leading motorsport weekly. Since 1950 all aspects of motor racing from Formula 1, Le Mans and sports cars, rallying, single seaters and club racing have been photographed and archived in colour and black and white formats.
The two leading cars of the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans lit up the night. The Ford MkIV of Americans Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt led the Ferrari 330 P4 of Italian Ludovico Scarfiotti and Englishman Mike Parkes. They would finish in 1st and 2nd positions.
It should be noted that the Ford MkIV's unprecedented average speed of 218 km/h, and its top speed of 340 km/h on the Mulsanne Straight, led the International Sporting Commission to limit engine displacement to 3 liters in the following years, effectively ending the career of this brand-new MkIV.
In 2017, Gurney recounted one of the most incredible anecdotes in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans: "Mike Parkes, in the Ferrari, was a few laps behind me, trying to force me into a mistake by constantly flashing his headlights. This annoyed me so much that I pulled over to the side of the road after Arnage and stopped; to my surprise, Mike stopped behind me and we stayed like that for probably ten to fifteen seconds, waiting to see who would move first. He gave way first and drove off."
