Fueled by innovation. Driven to make history. American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans premieres June 12 on Prime Video.
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00:01Le Mans is the biggest race in the world.
00:04It's a 24-hour race.
00:06It's about survival.
00:07Pushing man and machine to the limit.
00:15We're gonna race a NASCAR at Le Mans.
00:17We're gonna do what?
00:20There's a stereotype that NASCAR isn't as technologically advanced as other racing series.
00:25In 1976, Bill Franz took a couple of NASCARs to Le Mans.
00:30One made only two laps.
00:32Our goal was to make sure that we beat my father's record.
00:36Mike Rockenfeller.
00:37Jimmy Johnson.
00:38Jensen Button.
00:39You're not gonna get bigger star power.
00:41Hendrick Motorsports is NASCAR's most successful, most powerful team.
00:46If you were gonna choose a team, this was the team you wanted to choose.
00:52We're gonna do this right.
00:53Whatever it takes, we're not gonna be embarrassed.
00:57We had to battle and fight and claw.
01:02Three, two, one.
01:06You always enter a race with a strategy, but rarely do things play out as you would hope.
01:11It's raining hard out there.
01:12I don't have a ton of wet driving experience.
01:14Jimmy's coming down the back straightaway, he's like, I think the car's on fire.
01:17We might not make it back out there.
01:20We want to show the world we were ready.
01:24We have one shot and one opportunity to go and make this successful.
01:30This car is so loud.
01:31The other cars are whizzing by.
01:33Just pew, pew, pew.
01:34Pew, pew!
01:35And then...
01:36Pew, pew, pew.
01:37Pew, pew.