Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman Page #2
since I was about 15.
When Paul and I met, by that time,
I had acquired a very special
racing car called a Porsche 904.
It was built for Sebring.
So that was the car I had
when we made "Butch Cassidy."
I knew of his love of cars
And so forth, so I said,
"you want to drive it?"
He took it to hand right away,
and it was pretty clear
that he had a natural ability
with the car.
When we saw each other
again, he was racing.
He had gone to this
school, graduated.
You started the whole
thing, Bondurant,
Whether you know it or not.
I mean, I remember
with some trepidation
the first time I went
from a two-liter Datsun sedan
into a formula Vee.
And it was right out of the box,
and no one had checked
camber or anything,
and the car just
lurched from one side of
the corner to the other,
and I thought, "boy,
if this is a racer,
I don't want to have
an awful lot to do with it."
He went on to the racing world.
That's what he
really wanted to do.
You could tell that this was
a big, big thing in his life.
The studios didn't
want him doing that.
it would involve
He meant so much to a movie.
I mean, if you get Paul Newman
to do a picture, I mean,
that was hundreds of millions
of dollars in profits for them.
And I dreamed about
this game, fat man.
every night on the road.
I mean, they think of Paul.
"Geez,
what is he doing in a racer.
Is he crazy?
Let him do it for a couple of times,
then we'll take him out of it."
You know, that's their attitude.
In 1971, I was at Lime Rock
on a Tuesday testing,
and it was not unusual
for Jim Haynes,
who owned the track, to say,
"would you take so and so
from the Hartford courant,
the Norwalk hour,
The Stamford advocate,"
one of the newspapers,
"around for a couple laps?"
So I said, "sure.
Send him over."
It was Paul, in blue jeans
and sunglasses, and his son.
I didn't recognize him.
He didn't look like a plastic,
Hollywood guy to me.
So I took them both
around for a couple laps,
and somebody said, "that was
Paul Newman, wasn't it?"
I said, "it was Paul
something or other."
Well, and there was a place
called Bob Sharp Datsun.
So, that was sort of one
"Bob Sharp?"
You know, I'd go visit him.
I'd go, "my God,
that's Bob Sharp."
I'd watch it like the Beatles
were performing there,
and that's who he raced for.
He was 48 years old
when he started racing,
when most people are retiring.
Hi. I'm Sam Posey.
I used to drive cars
like this for a living.
It's been 17 years now
since I started racing.
And, recently,
I've tapered off a bit.
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