It’s time to go back to basics. As good as modern motor racing movies are, the entire genre is inarguably…

LE MANS Released 1971 Director Lee Katzin, John Sturges Studio Cinema Center Films, National General Pictures Stars Steve McQueen Gross…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, JUNE 1999 Not long ago, I spent a couple of hours sitting at a table in…

Le Mans was the movie Steve McQueen most wanted to make. The ultimate bloke’s bloke was mates with Jackie Stewart…

Sometimes you have an idea floating around in your head for days, weeks or even months, but in the case…

Derek Bell recalls his unexpected friendship with Steve McQueen... “I’d only just started in sports cars, so I was pretty…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, OCTOBER 1970 One of the few attributes of the Le Mans 24 Hours race is that…

In 1895, the Lumiére brothers presented projected moving pictures to a paying audience for the first time. In 1896, commercial…

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Greased Lightning (1977) This alleged biopic of African-American NASCAR racer Wendell Scott was nothing of the sort. While not a…

GRAND PRIX Released 1966 Director John Frankenheimer Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stars James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, Antonio Sabato Gross $20.8m…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016 He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT JANUARY 2000 It has been 33 years since James Garner last walked on Monza’s soil. Then,…

TAKEN FROM MOTORSPORTMAGAZINE.COM, OCTOBER 2019 If there is one genre of film I dislike more than any other, more than…

WINNING Released 1969 Director James Goldstone Studio Universal Pictures Stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner Gross $14.6m (Budget $12m)…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 Ask the man in the street to name a movie star racer and they…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 Paul Newman had a strange request at the 1995 Daytona 24 Hours. The Oscar-winning actor and…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT MAY 2019 How much would you pay for a piece of automotive history which came complete with a…

Cinema posters were not printed in huge quantities, and if not binned when showings were over were returned to the…

TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT JANUARY 1958 A popular winter motor-racing entertainment is the BRSCC Festival of Speed and Sport, which took…