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You've seen "Le Mans '66/Ford vs. Ferrari".   You've seen "Le Mans" and "Grand Prix".   You may even have been able to sit through "Days of Thunder".    Now you will be able to see the movie that Steve McQueen was 'robbed' of, or at least what was left of it after Warner Brothers pulled the plug on the project in 1965.     A historian has dug the preliminary footage out and made it into a film, "The Day of the Champion: The Lost Movie" that will be shown on the Sky Documentary channel.

MotorSport magazine has such an extensive and detailed article about the film that you hardly need see it, if it weren't for the stills that it includes from the film.   They include in-car footage over the shoulder of Stirling Moss, no less, as he 'raced' some Loti around the Nurburgring.   Unmissable!

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-2021/72/steve-mcqueens-lost-f1-movie-day-of-the-champion?utm_campaign=2322573_ED_GR - 090822 - McQueen&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailCampaign&dm_i=4DIP,1DS3X,49SMYJ,6E7WB,1

John

If you can't wait, go to the MotorSport webpage and click on the line of page images below the first paragraph.   Click on the first, and then page  through the  article, and see the stills in perfect resolution!

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