When Hollywood Met Le Mans: Steve McQueen's Quest for Racing Realism
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. This is his story...
Briton Jonathan Williams and German Herbert Linge shared McQueen’s private Porsche 908/2 during Le Mans in 1970, with the car modified to carry two film cameras
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, JUNE 1999
“When I got to the paragraph in the contract where the terms of payment were spelt out, I couldn’t believe my eyes. For the first and last time during my short career, I’d have some money left over when the work was finished”
Not long ago, I spent a couple of hours sitting at a table in a French hotel, signing my name five hundred times. I was rewarded at the rate of two dollars per scribble, which strikes me as the kind of work I’d like on a regular basis!