re: Paul Newman Racing Documentary - Official Trailer

Thanks! I didn't know this was being made. Definitely a must-see.

Newman won multiple SCCA national championships and was seriously respected by Mario Andretti. Steve McQueen was better known than Newman for his car and motorcycle racing, but Mario did not rate him—he just saw McQueen as a "gentleman driver," but he rated Newman. Newman later started the Newman/Haas team with Carl Haas to run Mario in CART, where they won multiple Indycar championships with Mario, Michael, and later Nigel Mansell.

Despite his busy career as an actor, philanthropist and race team owner, Newman continued to race, and at age 70 he became the oldest driver to win a professional race when he won his class at the 24 hrs of Daytona driving with Mark Martin and Tommy Kendall as teammates. The car wore the number 70 to reflect his age:



The guy was a real American bad-arse.