# RIP: Paul Newman (9/27/08)
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 27, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571 "2008-09-27T07:43:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@BooSting](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BooSting)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/1 "2008-09-27T07:43:36Z")
A man’s man.
[http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=paul+newman](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=paul+newman)
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### Author:  [@AFhockey31](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AFhockey31)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/2 "2008-09-27T07:45:10Z")
☹ R.I.P.
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### Author:  [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/3 "2008-09-27T07:45:23Z")
RIP
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### Author:  [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/4 "2008-09-27T07:53:31Z")
profits for charity??? a man’s man?
unless you consider hookers charity cases, hes a fag!
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### Author:  [@bigwoode](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bigwoode)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/5 "2008-09-27T07:55:16Z")
RIP Cool Hand Luke
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### Author:  [@FBodyMadnezz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FBodyMadnezz)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/6 "2008-09-27T08:53:15Z")
😢
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### Author:  [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/7 "2008-09-27T10:15:59Z")
RIP
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/8 "2008-09-27T10:20:47Z")
I really have no idea who he is :gotme:
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### Author:  [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/9 "2008-09-27T10:35:05Z")
:wstupid:
> [@JEG](#):
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> I really have no idea who he is :gotme:
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### Author:  [@Pass\_McGass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pass_McGass)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/10 "2008-09-27T11:18:18Z")
Aww man. I’m going to pour out some balsamic vinaigrette in commemoration.
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/11 "2008-09-27T11:44:31Z")
Please tell me the people that don’t know much about him actually took a second to google him:
> Newman was an avid auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports (“the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in”) while training for and filming Winning, a 1969 film. Newman’s first professional event was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut, and he was a common competitor in Sports Car Club of America events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning several championships. He later drove in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour’s Porsche 935 and finished the race in second.[25] Newman rejoined Dick Barbour in 2000 to compete in the Petit Le Mans.[26]
> From the mid-'70s to the early '90s, he drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series. He became heavily associated with the brand during the '80s, even appearing in commercials for them. At the age of 70 he became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race,[citation needed] winning in his class at the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona.[27] Among his final experiences in racing was competing in the Baja 1000 in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005.[28]
> Newman initially owned his own racing team which competed in the Can-Am series, but later co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a Champ Car team, in 1983. The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated. He was also a partner in the Atlantic Championship team Newman Wachs Racing. Newman also owned a car NASCAR Winston Cup before selling it to Penske Racing, where it now serves as the #12 car.
RIP.
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### Author:  [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/12 "2008-09-27T12:27:30Z")
> [@JEG](#):
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> I really have no idea who he is :gotme:
Wow.
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### Author:  [@Smaefer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smaefer)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/13 "2008-09-27T22:44:18Z")
> [@JEG](#):
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> I really have no idea who he is :gotme:
Why would this not surprise me?!?!?!
sux that another great actor who has done great things is gone.
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/14 "2008-09-27T23:47:36Z")
Cool Hand Luke & The Sting were both great movies. Sucks… RIP.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/15 "2008-09-28T06:36:44Z")
How can you not know who he is?
He was a great man that is all you need to know.
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### Author:  [@amspimpwagon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amspimpwagon)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/16 "2008-09-28T06:53:21Z")
RIP
LoL @ ppl who dont know who he is.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/17 "2008-09-28T07:31:26Z")
> [@JEG](#):
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> I really have no idea who he is :gotme:
maybe you should do some reading instead of posting redneck shotgun videos.
RIP.
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### Author:  [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/18 "2008-09-28T07:55:49Z")
☹
I heard about this while watching F1 qualifying last night. Terrible ☹ He knew it was coming though he had started giving away cars and did some “Goodbye laps” at Lime rock a few weeks back.
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### Author:  [@forthekicks385](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/forthekicks385)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/19 "2008-09-28T08:00:33Z")
R. I. P. sir you will be missed at the 24 hours of Daytona.
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### Author:  [@98SS10](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/98SS10)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-paul-newman-9-27-08/55571/20 "2008-09-28T08:16:11Z")
fuck, what’d ya say to em Reg!? RIP
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