Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman Page #2

Synopsis: Feature length documentary chronicling the 35 year racing career of Paul Newman -- Showcasing Newman's prolific racing career as both a driver and an owner. As a driver Paul Newman won four SCCA National Championships, 24 Hours of Daytona, took true second at Le Mans (winning his class) and won multiple professional Trans Am races. Newman also owned Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas. Together with drivers Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Sebastien Bourdais and others, they were one of the most prolific Indycar teams in history, winning 8 Championships. Newman lived and breathed racing -- This is his story.
 
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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.

If something happened to him,

it would involve

a great financial problem.

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.

I dreamed about this game

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

of those legendary places.

"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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