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He finished second overall in the 1979 24 Hours of LeMans, and won four SCCA championships between 1979 and 1986. In 2006, he became the oldest driver to start the Rolex 24, at age 81. Newman’s passion for racing rivaled his acting ability, and he was a legend in both.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, McQueen raced a Lotus 11, Porsche Speedster, MGA, Cooper formula car, a Porsche 908.
McQueen perform the majority of the high-speed driving behind the wheel of the Mustang GT 390 in 1968’s Bullitt), McQueen was no racer wannabe. In preparation for the filming of 1971’s LeMans, along with racer Peter Revson, he raced a Porsche 908/02 in the 12 Hours of Sebring and won the 3-litre class, missing the overall win by only 23 seconds to Mario Andretti’s Ferrari 512S.

In "Grand Prix" Garner did much of his own driving scene, racing legend Graham Hill told James Garner he was a good enough driver to professionally race. Garner took Hill’s endorsement seriously, and became one of the most accomplished actor-drivers of his day. He founded the American International Racing team, immortalized in the documentary The Racing Scene, and famously drove a highly-modified Oldsmobile 442 in the 1969 Baja 1000 off-road race. Garner continued his high-performance driving career while driving the pace car at the Indy 500 in 1975, 1977, and 1985.

Owner of the Dempsey Racing team, he competes in race-prepped Porsche 911s, and has competed in the 24 Hours of LeMans (2015 (GTE Am class) 2nd place ), Rolex 24 at Daytona, and Vision Racing IndyCar Series among other races. In 2011, he took third place overall at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Making his racing career debut in the 1996 Targa Tasmania, by 2004 Bana was competing in the Australian Porsche Challenge in a 944. Bana combined both his passions by producing and starring in 2009’s Love the Beast, a documentary that told the story of the 1974 Ford Falcon XB he bought when he was 15 years old.

Starting out in a Toyota Celica All-trac ST185 in the SCCA Pro Rally Series, Priestley graduated to open-wheel racing in 2002, competing in the IndyCar Series supporting Pro Series. Out of the cockpit, Priestley became a joint owner in the Rubicon Race team in the IndyCar Series team, then became a co-owner of the FAZZT Race Team, which competed full time in the 2010 IndyCar Series that also had Canadian Alex Tagliani as its driver.

Though he was a relative newcomer to racing, James Dean was a talented driver, and single-handedly created the actor-racer archetype. After competing in an MG and a Porsche Speedster, Dean was banned from racing by Warner Bros. until shooting wrapped for the film Giant. Once filming was completed, he turned his attention back to racing and bought a race-prepped Porsche 550 Spyder. Unfortunately, he would never race in it — Dean was killed driving the Porsche to its first race in Salinas, Calif. on September 30, 1955.

Racing career has superseded his previous job as an actor. In 2004, Muniz got the racing bug participating in the popular Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race held annually during the Long Beach Grand Prix. He followed that by racing in the 2006 Formula BMW USA series and was picked as one of the 36 drivers to compete in the annual Formula BMW World Final.

racing bug while filming The French Connection, where he did about 60% of the stunt driving in the iconic chase scene. By the late 1970s, he had built a reputation as one of the best celebrity racers in Hollywood. His racing peak was driving for legendary racer Dan Gurney’s team in the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona.

had a well-known passion for exotic cars, but he was also a talented driver on the track. The star of The Fast and the Furious series competed in the Redline Time Attack racing series with a modified BMW M3, and co-owned the Always Evolving speed shop and racing team, which still races today.

On top of famously owning (and crashing) a McLaren F1, and writing for a number of British car magazines, Atkinson is an accomplished racer. In the 1980s, he drove a mid-engined Renault 5 in the manufacturer’s Turbo Cup racing series, and went on to compete in his Aston Martin at Silverstone in 2010. In 2014, he was involved in a head-on collision racing a vintage Ford Falcon Sprint at Goodwood. Luckily, he walked away unharmed.
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