Paul Newman

[SentraWV]

RIP (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/movies/AP-Obit-Newman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all).

Am I right that he was an SCCA champion at some point?

[kirk4]

Newman began racing sports cars in amateur divisions and won his first race in 1972 at Thompson, Conn., in a Lotus Elan. He earned the first of four SCCA National title in 1976 in the D-Production class and also won championships in the 1979 C-Production category, as well as taking the GT-1 championship in 1985 and 1986.

His first professional victory came in the rain at an SCCA trans-Am race at Brainerd, Minn., in 1982.

[SentraWV]

Thanks for the info, Kirk.

[kirk4]

When I looked back at the post I look like a wealth of racing knowledge but this was quoed from an article on MSN. I did say hello to Paul at one of the Daytona 24 hour races though.

[Hillbilly]

The greats just keep on dyin', another damn shame.