1997 - Le Mans - Two major fires at the Mulsanne Corner

The works Porsche 911 GT1 was leading with a decent margin by 2pm on Sunday.

Around after 1.40pm, Ralf Kelleners jumped into the Porsche after a pit stop. He would drive for an other stint, only for the Porsche to catch fire at the Mulsanne hump.

The leader stops on the Mulsanne straight with the rear well alight. Kelleners jumped from the car and waved to the fire crews to quickly put out the fire. They did, but not before the back of the car was gutted (somewhat like the team)

At 2.01pm, the Gulf Davidoff McLaren F1 GTR car with Andrew Gilbert-Scott (partnered by Ray Bellm and Masanori Sekiya) at the wheel had caught fire on the Mulsanne straight, the fire took hold of the rear and burnt out the engine area. This incident looked very similar to that suffered by the sister car of #40, in Thursday's qualifying when an oil line fractured.

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• 1997
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• 24
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• Ralf
• Kelleners
• Porsche
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• GT1

[18PacWest]

The Posche 911 GT1 of Kelleners caught fire and the Mclaren F1 #39 engulfed in flames.

[18PacWest]

Andrew Gilbert-Scott and Ray Bellm's McLaren #39 retired in dramatic fashion from fourth place.

[wippermannl]

driver is waving to the marshalls... lol what a loser!

[ampthilluk]

was the weather particularly hot then?

[EJ25RUN]

I feel bad liking this vid. Makes me feel as if im happy the F1 is burning.

Really miss this level of GT1 though.

[bucketslash11]

1:19 - 1:28 afterburners: activated

[18PacWest]

It really is in the final stages of the race, both the Porsche GT1 and the Gulf McLaren fighting for a podium finish and then they're both went into flames in the space of four and a half minutes.

[baujahr90er]

it hurts to see these 2 really great cars just burn away...

[Tuppoo94]

0:48 I want a color-changing cap too!

[heliloco]

May be a sniper shooting in Le Mans...Hummmm..!!

[FUCHANU]

That's the koolest looking flame job ever. It looks so real.

Bye Bye $. Bye Bye fun.

[TheD283]

Atvonz dont post 5 times the same thing!!!!!