Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.
 Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s.
 McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in "The Sand Pebbles".
 His other popular films include "The Cincinnati Kid", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Bullitt", "The Getaway", and "Papillon", as well as the all-star ensemble films "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape", and "The Towering Inferno".
 In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world, although he did not act in films again for four years.
 McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
The European Le Mans Series (ELMS) is a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO).
 The European Le Mans Series is similar to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) based in the United States and Canada that was running with ACO and IMSA between 1999 and 2013.
 ELMS team champions and runners-up receive an automatic entry to the following year's 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 Originally titled the Le Mans Endurance Series before becoming simply the Le Mans Series in 2006, the series was renamed once more in 2012, reusing a name previously utilized by IMSA in 2001.
The 2011 American Le Mans Series season was a multi-event motor racing series for sports racing cars which conform to the technical regulations laid out by the International Motor Sports Association for the American Le Mans Series.
 It was the thirteenth season of the American Le Mans Series, a sports car racing series that drew original inspiration from the types of racing cars that compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the 41st season for the IMSA GT Championship, as this series traces its lineage to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship.
 The full title of the 2011 series is "the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón" to include the principal sponsor.
 The season began March 19, 2011 with the 12 Hours of Sebring and ended after nine rounds on October 1 with the Petit Le Mans.
The Michelin Le Mans Cup (GT3 Le Mans Cup in 2016) is a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO).
 The GT3 Le Mans Cup was created in 2016 after the GTC category being dropped of European Le Mans Series due to a lack of entries during 2015.
 Aiming to increase the number of GT3 entries, ACO created a new six event competition (5 events of 2 hours and an one-hour race at Le Mans - with LMP3) destinated primarily for amateur drivers, leading to more media coverage and competitive races (in ELMS, GT3 were much slower then the other 3 categories).
Johnny Mowlem (born 12 February 1969) is a professional British racing driver.
 Mowlem is considered to be among the world's elite sports car drivers, having competed in every class of world championship sports car racing.
 He is the 2013 European Le Mans Series GT champion, having previously won the British Porsche Cup championship in 1996 and 1997.
 He has class victories in both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring, and has earned podiums at virtually all of the world's major sports car races, including the Le Mans 24 hours and the 1000 km Nürburgring.
 He has also achieved overall podium finishes at the Daytona 24 hours as well as at the famous 10-hour Petit Le Mans race in the USA.
 Mowlem began his career in single seaters racing up to Formula 3 level and got his big break when he was chosen personally by triple Formula One World Champion Jackie Stewart to join his "staircase of "talent" team in the junior single seater formula, alongside drivers of the calibre of Dario Franchitti, Allan McNish and Gil de Ferran.
 He switched to sportscars in 1996, winning the Class 1 championship of the British Porsche Cup and then gained international recognition the following year when he won all 17 races of the British Porsche Cup to become British champion.
 This launched his professional career in World Sportscars.
 Later in his career he gained further international attention for his work as a driver of the hybrid-powered Ginetta Zytek prototype racer in the ALMS in 2008 and 2009.
 In 2010, Mowlem was a Lotus Racing factory driver, driving the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and in the International GT Open Series for sports cars in Europe.
 His latest driving championship came in the European Le Mans Series in 2013.
 Mowlem raced in the ALMS series every year that sanctioning body held races.
 Mowlem also operates his own driving academy, working with both corporate clients and drivers wishing for a career in racing.
The 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup was the second and final running of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, an international auto racing championship for manufacturers and teams.
 The Cup featured endurance races from the American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, and a stand-alone event in Zhuhai, China.
 Championships were held for Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1), Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance – Professional (LMGTE Pro) and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance – Amateur (LMGTE Am) category cars.
Le Mans Football Club (] ; commonly referred to as Le MUC or simply Le Mans) is a French association football club based in Le Mans.
 The club was founded in 1985 as a result of a merger under the name Le Mans Union Club 72.
 In 2010, Le Mans changed its name to Le Mans FC to coincide with the re-modeling of the club, which includes moving into a new stadium, MMArena, which opened in January 2011.
 The club played in Ligue 2, the second level of French football having suffered relegation from Ligue 1 following the 2009–10 season.
 Due to financial difficulties, the club lost its professional status in 2013, went bankrupt, and reformed in the Division d'Honneur, Maine for the 2013–14 season.
 The club won promotion back to CFA 2 at the first time of asking, and in 2017 won promotion again to the new Championnat National 2.
Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin.
 It features actual footage captured during the 1970 race held the previous June.
The 2010 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup was the inaugural running of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, an international auto racing championship for manufacturers and teams.
 The Cup featured endurance races from the American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, and Asian Le Mans Series, as well as teams representing each of the three series.
 Winning teams were awarded with automatic invitations to the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.
 As with the three racing series based on Le Mans, the Intercontinental Cup featured the ACO's four premiere classes: LMP1, LMP2, GT1, and GT2.
 Six manufacturers and eighteen teams vied for the Cup in each of the four classes utilized in Le Mans racing.
The 2010 8 Hours of Le Castellet ("8 Heures du Castellet") was the inaugural round of the 2010 Le Mans Series season.
 It took place at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France on 11 April 2010.
 It was the first Le Mans Series race that is longer than the standard 1,000-km distance the LMS use since the 2007 Mil Milhas Brasil.
 Audi Sport Team Joest won the race overall in their first use of the Audi R15 TDI in the Le Mans Series, with drivers Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello.
 Aston Martin Racing and Rebellion Racing completed the overall podium five laps behind the winning Audi.
 Strakka Racing also brought Honda Performance Development a win on their debut in the LMP2 category, leading the OAK Racing Pescarolo by 33 seconds.
 Applewood Seven won the Formula Le Mans category, the first event in which this class participated in the Le Mans Series.
 Team Felbermayr-Proton dominated the GT2 category by finishing in the top two positions, ahead of the first of the AF Corse Ferraris.

Question: In what year did the star of "Le Mans" die?
Answer: 1980