Lightning McQueen is he a race car driver?
Haha, no its actually a name of a animated stock car in the film cars
Oh yeah, It is from the movie Cars. Did you see it?
I think you were thinking about steve mcqeen, the race car driver. haha. But its not named after that either! And yes I've seen cars. I love all the films!
I saw it too. The movie is really cute for little kids. If my memory serve me he won the NASCAR.
You're right. his number 95 has an interesting story too, its the release year of the film toy story!
I remember also that he was red. That movie is one of  a kind in visual effects.
storyline left both Lightning McQueen and rivals Chick Hicks ("Cars") and Bobby Swift, Brick Yardley, Cal Weathers and Jackson Storm ("Cars 3") as generic.
In order to create a cocky but likable character for McQueen, Pixar looked at sports figures like boxer Muhammad Ali, basketball player Charles Barkley, and football quarterback Joe Namath, as well as rap and rock singer Kid Rock.
The end result is a character which, despite the usually-meticulous approach to "truth to material"
Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen is an anthropomorphic stock car in the animated Pixar film "Cars" (2006), its sequels "Cars 2" (2011), "Cars 3" (2017), and TV shorts known as "Cars Toons". The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but after Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died in 2002. His design is inspired by a stock car and "a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer," with "some Lola and some Ford