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Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman


jeffer949

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I watched it a couple months ago. I only began following racing closely after he was past his "prime" so I didnt realize what a good driver he really was. Nor did I know he raced full 10-13 race seasons with testing in between.

 

I tried to talk to him on the grid at Daytona one year when he was 60 or something. Thought he was a A-hole. But after seeing the movie, I realize how much fan/media attention he had to deal with. He actually ran over a photographer at Lemans.

 

Adam Carolla did the movie. Great footage and interviews with Bob Sharpe.

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Carolla is a big Newman car collector. He's got a number of the former Newman/Sharp cars in his collection. On his podcast he said the next doc they're going to do is about Ford taking the GT40 to LeMans.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hunteratkins/2015/06/16/how-adam-carolla-became-the-worlds-greatest-paul-newman-racecar-collector/

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