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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>My
first run in with Paul was at Detroit in 1986. I was trying to get to another
location on the</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>corner
and had to get around him. I asked him to move and he was very apologetic for
being</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>in my
way. I then realized who it was.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>At the
US Grand Prix in Phoenix in 1990, I was working a station behind the TransAm
paddock.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008>Another worker across the street was trying to signal
me that someone behind me wanted to</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>ask me
a question. As there were only about 3 F1 cars on course, when they passed by,
he</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>yelled
at me to turn around. It was raining and these two guys wanted to know if I
thought if</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>the
track was going to dry up before the TA session. One of the guys had his hat
pulled low</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>over
his face, but he turned his face up to me to ask the question. I immediately
knew it was</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>PLN. I
told him that the track might dry up if it stopped raining, but we had a large
puddle on</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>the
line that passed for a lake in Phoenix. He and the other guy (Bob Sharp) both
started</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008>laughing. I realized that there were scores of women
looking for him but he wasn't going to</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>let
them know where he was.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=538201002-29092008>I saw
him again at Detroit a couple of years later, and he was always very cordial to
marshals.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008>Doug</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=538201002-29092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> fot-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Joe
Boruch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:00 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
tarch@bellsouth.net<BR><B>Cc:</B> lcouperin@hotmail.com;
enichol@bellsouth.net; taylorrichardl@bellsouth.net;
leetheviolinist@gmail.com; rltaylor3@gmail.com; nancy_mitchco@hotmail.com;
ruthie.taylor@gmail.com; fot@autox.team.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Paul
Newman<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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.
<BR><BR>-- "Richard Taylor" <tarch@bellsouth.net>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The bartender then
looks at me. So I say “Well, do you know who I am?” He says, “No,
who are you?”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I tell him, “I’m
Richard Taylor from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The bartender thinks
a second then says, “That’s great. That’ll be
$3.50.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If one can make a
judgment of a man by an antidotal moment, in my mind Newman exhibited class in
its noblest unrefined form. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Richard<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><FONT
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