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Steven McQueen won the first amateur sports car race he
entered in Santa Barbara in 1959 driving his 1958 Porsche Speedster. After
that first outing, he continued driving the Speedster, entering races at
Willow Springs, Del Mar, Hourglass Field and Riverside. After the Speedster
he would move to a Lotus XI in late 1959, hitting all the same tracks again.
Other cars raced by him were a Cooper FJ, an Austin Healey at Sebring and a
Porsche 908 Spyder which was used...
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Steve won his class in his first race at Santa Barbara with the Speedster and other races at Willow Springs and Laguna Seca in 1959 |
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 1959 - Al Long on the far left, Frank Monise in the middle ...with Steve McQueen
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 160 - STEVE MCQUEEN
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| #33 Lotus Eleven |
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| September,1959 |
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 Riverside Race Track - 1963
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