AMID THE CHAOS, a bit of clarity. “There was never a script for the movie the whole way through,” recalled Derek Bell, stunt driver for the filming of the 1971 motor racing classic Le Mans. But one thing was never in doubt. The star of the show, Steve McQueen, was insistent on making the ultimate racing movie. To do so, the movie had to be, above all, uncompromisingly authentic.
McQueen demanded that everything had to be as realistic as they could be, from
