Sunday PM:  Tony's 3 liter Ferrari 312P rounds Mulsanne Corner ahead of the long-tailed 5 liter Ferrari 512S driven by NART teammates Ron Bucknum and Sam Posey

     The field was so depleted by this point that even with the spin and the time lost in the pits for repairs, we hadn't lost a single position.

     When the sun finally rose on Sunday morning, we were up to eighth place.  The incessant rain had finally stopped and the engine seemed just as strong as ever.

     We had moved up to sixth spot by noon, and held that position through the first two hours of the afternoon.  Then the electrics began to act up and we dropped back to ninth and finally to tenth.

               Le Mans 24 Hours

               June 13, 1970    cont.

Three miles of straight road:  The Mulsanne Straight

Total Recall by a2z

Tony presses the Jackie Ickx/Peter Schetty 512S through the esses.

Their more powerful #5 Ferrari was a handful in the rain, and

crashed heavily soon after this photo was taken.

Morning reveals the weather's toll:  Alfa Romeo T33/3 of Facetti /Zeccoli, and the Hailwood /Hobbs  #22 Porsche 917K

Hard to tell, but it appears as if Tony's driving the car here

Mulsanne Corner:  track dried, Tony and Chuck move up to 6th position by noon Sunday

I was behind the wheel at the finish, and when the checkered flag fell I decided I would take one final lap around the circuit rather than pull directly in to the pits. We had made it through a very tough race and I wanted some time to reflect on what we had accomplished before it all ended.

Tony Adamowicz, Gary Wheeler, Tony a2z, Tony Adamowics, a2zRacer, Gary Wheeler, Tony Adamowicz

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