[Fot] Paul Newman

[Kas Kastner]

I've still got a snap shot of Paul giving me a birthday cake at Limerock that he just took from the trunk of his car on a Trans-Am weekend when I was with Nissan.  Neat guy, fast driver and just a wonderful guy to hang with. 

I might add that Jan Alexander repeated this action with a birthday cake for me at Watkins Glen, and she is pretty cute too.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: robert bownes 
  To: Joe Boruch 
  Cc: lcouperin at hotmail.com ; enichol at bellsouth.net ; taylorrichardl at bellsouth.net ; leetheviolinist at gmail.com ; rltaylor3 at gmail.com ; nancy_mitchco at hotmail.com ; fot at autox.team.net ; ruthie.taylor at gmail.com 
  Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] Paul Newman



  I met PL at a driver's meeting @ LRP too. He was there in 99 or so at a National. Showed up at the driver's meeting just like the rest of us. Mostly listened to the Stewards say the same old stuff with about the same amount of attention. Making the same small race talk with everyone around him. Amazing guy. 

  Later I was up in the tower watching a race (FF's I think) and he wandered up. We made a few comments about a few great pass attempts and successes going on. 

  A racer just like the rest of us. Just with a different day job. 


  2008/9/28 Joe Boruch <jaboruch at netzero.net>

    I met Paul at a driver's meeting at an SCCA race at Lime Rock some years ago.  That's when he agreed to be an honerable FOT member.  He was very aproachable at the track as long as the subject was racing.  My wife started up a conversation with him later that day and called him Mr. Newman.  He replied "Call me Paul".  His wife and daughter were often up in the tower watching his race and were also very approachable.  He was still racing SCCA last year, but was doing regional races instead of the National races that he did in previous years.  He was still winning, too.  It was at an SCCA regional race in 2007 that Barbara Walters went for a track ride with Paul around Lime Rock.  She was doing a story about living a long life.   


    -- "Richard Taylor" <tarch at bellsouth.net> wrote:

    Ten years or so ago, I was sitting with a group of racers in the lobby of that Holiday Inn-type hotel at the northeast corner of Daytona International Speedway. In comes Newman and plops down on a sofa in a friendly-exhausted sort of way and starts bench racing right there. In a few minutes he and I go over to the temporary bar set up for cocktail hour. He orders a Budweiser and I order a Heinekens. Newman digs into his pocket to pay for his beer and the bartender says, "That's okay Mr. Newman, it's on the house."



    The bartender then looks at me. So I say "Well, do you know who I am?"   He says, "No, who are you?"



    I tell him, "I'm Richard Taylor from Atlanta"



    The bartender thinks a second then says, "That's great. That'll be $3.50."



    Newman, still standing there, chuckles. While I am waiting for my change he takes his free beer over to our group and tells them the story; to which they all laugh their collective asses off. 



    Of course there was no escaping the aura of his celebrity, but somehow it never eclipsed the camaraderie of our spontaneous little group of racers.



    If one can make a judgment of a man by an antidotal moment, in my mind Newman exhibited class in its noblest unrefined form. 



    Richard





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