Paul Newman at Le Mans: Pic Of The Week

When Paul Newman went racing he did it properly - POTW celebrates accordingly

Earlier this week we ran the trailer for Winning: The racing life of Paul Newman as a Time For Tea? and in the course of researching it delved into the LAT archives for some supporting images. And there were some beauts. Our natural Le Mans bias, combined with the fact it was Newman's most high-profile success, led us to pick this one of the Newman/Stommelen/Barbour Porsche 935 sandwiched between that of Shurti/Heyer and Fitzpatrick/Lafosse/Grohs. The Newman car ended up on second, the other two retiring and the overall race won by the Kremer 935 of Klaus Ludwig, Don Whittington and Bill Whittington.

Cool pic, cool car, cool guy. We look forward to finding out more about Newman's racing career as and when we get to see the documentary over here.

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