What price for a famous Le Mans winner from the 1970s? Almost 7 million euros, or £6.1m. That’s what’s just been paid in Paris for the Matra MS670 that Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill brought home first at La Sarthe in 1972, a victory that confirmed Matra as a major player and lifted the spirits of a nation.

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