I was reading an interview with Carroll about that race, somewhere else on the web. He mentioned the trans and clutch were fragile on the car's. No rev protection in those days's, one missed shift or a 100 other ways to screw up and you break the car. Which from the film I gather is what happened to the third Aston Martin, lost a gearbox. They also used GALLONS of
oil during the race, per car, and the passenger side of the cockpit was just awash with
oil at the end.
Just after he got in the car for the last time the camera showed a shot of his cowboys boots left in the pitts. I wonder what he was wearing for shoes, if anything, for those last laps? I recall Richard Petty talking about how he ALWAYS wore his cowboy boots when racing. Finally one day somebody talked him into wearing a pair of racing shoes. He was like, "Well dam, those things are great, better than my boots." Eh eh, just a bunch of cowboys back in the day...
