Steve McQueen

Yes. He held a competition licence and raced sports cars from 1959, entering events under the alias Harvey Mushman. His best result was second overall at the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 908/02 shared with Peter Revson.

21.1 seconds. He and Revson finished on the same lap as the winning five-litre Ferrari 512S of Mario Andretti, Ignazio Giunti and Nino Vaccarella, and won the three-litre class.

He drove with a cast on his left foot, having broken it in a motorcycle race two weeks before the event.

No. He wanted to enter the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 917 with Jackie Stewart, but the backers of his film threatened to withdraw their support. His Porsche 908 ran in the race as a camera car instead, and he made the film Le Mans, released in 1971.

A Porsche 356 and a Lotus Eleven in Southern California club racing, an Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite for BMC, a BMC Mini in the British Touring Car Championship, a Formcar Vee in Formula Vee, and the Porsche 908/02 at Sebring in 1970.

Extensively. He rode off-road on a BSA Hornet and Triumphs, competed in the Baja 1000, the Mint 400 and the Elsinore Grand Prix, and rode for the first official United States team at the 1964 International Six Days Trial in East Germany.

Because of his 1971 film Le Mans, which was built around the Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 and made that blue-and-orange car one of the most recognisable in motorsport, even though McQueen himself never raced a 917.