[Paal Gulli]

The 917K won LeMans in 1970 & 71. The distance covered by the winning car in '71 set a record not broken until 2010.

Unlike Porsche's iconic flat-6 'boxer' family of engines, the 917 used a 180° V-12 engine, six crankshaft journals with the connecting rods from each pair of opposing cylinders sharing a common journal. Same arrangement as used in the engine in Ferrari's 512 Berlinetta Boxer which, despite its name, used a 180°-V design, not a "boxer" layout.

Crankshaft and jugs from a 917:

12 jugs, six journals

[Jimmy Valentine]

I’ll need to check, but the Ford won by 32 miles/4 full laps over the second place finisher. 212 mph on Mulsanne. For its time nothing better.