Steve McQueen "Le Mans" DVD

Forty-five international racing stars join Steve McQueen in this gritty, nerve-shattering recreation of the toughest car race on earth-Le Mans. Returning to France to compete a year after he's been injured, an American driver (Steve McQueen) finds himself drawn to the widow of a racer who was killed in the same accident. Filmed on location in France, the film's spellbinding cinematography provides a dazzling look at the world's most extraordinary cars and the unique personalities of the people drawn to the race car circuit. Steve McQueen, himself a championship racer, did most of his own driving on the harrowing 8.5-mile Le Mans course—often at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour. Order DVD

All photographs are available for purchase in the Grand Prix Boutique!

Attention: All photographs are original black/white images from the original "Le Mans" photographer (Lion André de Lourmel). Buy Steve McQueen photographs in the GPO Boutique!

Participation in this legendary race to the west of Paris is the biggest challenge in motor sport for the drivers as well as for the manufacturers. For the appearance in Le Mans an estimated 500 million Euro are paid by the sports chiefs of the race teams in order to prove their technical competence. The drivers of the 50 teams go to their limit for such a glorious win. In our memory is still the Mercedes team of 1994: one driver had cut open his palm, the second suffered a circulatory breakdown and the third has been delivered from the steering wheel to the drip. Germanys most successful driver Klaus Ludwig who won the race in 1979, 1984 and 1985 characterized this sentence: “This race is like a war. Nobody knows if they are going to return”.



Attention: All photographs are original black/white images from the original "Le Mans" photographer (Lion André de Lourmel). Buy Steve McQueen photographs in the GPO Boutique!