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Winning - The Racing Life of Paul Newman

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By: Matt Stone .

For all his fame as one of Hollywood's great actors, a world-class humanitarian, and the proprietor of a natural food empire, the late Paul Newman had another intriguing facet that was less known and perhaps closer to his heart than all the rest of his well-chronicled life. He was an avid, successful and well respected car racer and team owner.

This book tells that story—from Newman's racing career, begun in earnest at an age when many race car drivers contemplate retirement; to the partnership he formed in 1983 with Chicago racing entrepreneur and team owner Carl Haas; to the impressive stable of automobiles he owned, from the Porsches and Ferraris to quirkier modified VWs and Volvos.

This is the tale of a life full of passion and skill, of someone who entered the 24 Hours of Daytona at the age of seventy and made his last professional race outing at eighty-two; whose roster of drivers for Newman/Hass reads as a who's who of open wheel racing; and whose interest in cars extended from the likely suspects to old trucks and new hybrids. And then there's the charming pal who, when the incorrigible prankster Robert Redford had a miserably wrecked Ferrari dropped at his front door, returned the favor by having the car, crushed into a cube, delivered to Redford's living room.

The anecdotes, the races, the cars—all are here, adding up to what for many would be a full life, but for Paul Newman was simply another side of a man of talent, conviction, and enduring spirit.

 


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Publisher Code:
WINN
ISBN 10:
 
ISBN 13:
9780760337066
Published:
2009
Dimensions:
126x175mm
Pages:
176
Illustrations:
Hard Bound, Colour ill
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9780760337066
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Condition Sync Code:
1000
Sync Category Code:
261186
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