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Gentleman’s Journal headed down to the event, and took a look at McQueen’s immortalised Porsche. And, with a recent restoration bringing every inch of the car back up to its original Le Mans-winning standard, we can confirm that it’s still a motor that would make McQueen proud.
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Clad using immaculately-sculpted carbon fibre body panels,...
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- Origins of The Porsche 917
- An Overview of Steve McQueen’s 1970 Porsche 917K
- The Real Story of Steve McQueen's Porsche 917 in 'Le Mans'
The 917 was born to help Porsche take advantage of the new rules instigated by the Commission Sportive Internationale (the FIA's then-independent competition arm) regarding 5-liter sports cars. The Commission reduced the capacity for the Group 6 International Championships of Makes to three liters in a bid to taper the speed of unlimited-capacity G...
The 917K was more than a variant of the 1969 Porsche 917. It was an evolution of the original car that was basically undrivable at high speeds due to aerodynamics. With the 1969 championships over, John Wyer of JW Automotives requested a three-day test session of the original car at the Austrian Red Bull Ring (formerly the Östeirreichring). Porsche...
McQueen executed a stellar job of capturing the essence of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Hollywood flick of the same name, but his four-wheeled co-star in the movie – a 1970 Porsche 917K, is as much an icon as the Hollywood A-Lister. When the same car, with chassis 026, got scheduled to cross RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction block in August 2021, it ...
Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin. The film began as a John Sturges project, before he was replaced during filming. It features actual footage captured during the 1970 race held the previous June.
Jan 28, 2022 · Filming of the Hollywood movie "Le Mans" with Steve McQueen in the role of racing driver Michael Delaney has been going on in the small French town since the summer. A Porsche 917K in the orange-blue Gulf livery had already competed at the 24-hour race in June to capture live racing footage.
Aug 9, 2021 · It seems there was even a plan for Steve McQueen to race 917-022 in the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans with selected co-driver Sir Jackie Stewart. However, Cinema Center Films (another production company involved) didn’t allow Steve to run the race because of the huge investment at risk if Steve were to get injured or worse…
Oct 16, 2023 · When Hollywood Met Le Mans: Steve McQueen's Quest for Racing Realism. October 16th 2023. Remember the realism of Le Mans? Jonathan Williams does: he was the man hired to drive the camera car, Steve McQueen’s own Porsche 908, in the actual race to get realistic footage.
Le Mans: Directed by Lee H. Katzin, John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Two car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.
