22 | september | october 2017ABOVE “Son Chad McQueen recalls, ‘My old man wasn’t stupid. He probably looked at what he could make as a race driver, even under the
best conditions, and what he could earn as an actor, and it was pretty clear.’ As demonstrated throughout the 1960s, and especially in
1969–1970, McQueen found other ways to feed his high-speed addiction, even if he had to form his own production company and build
an entire film around motorsport to do so.”LEFT “One race McQueen ran
several times over the years was
the Elsinore Grand Prix, a real
open-terrain hare-and-hound-style
off- and on-road motorcycle event;
ten laps around an uber-challenging
ten-mile course just north of San
Diego, California.”
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