Motorsport / Acting legend Paul Newman passed away sep. 26 @ 83

[nthfinity]

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/26/paul-newman-takes-last-laps-at-lime-rock/

Sky News article (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Paul-Newman-Hollywood-Legend-Star-Of-Butch-Cassidy-And-The-Sundance-Kid-Dies-Aged-83/Article/200809415108375?lpos=Home_First_World_News_Article _Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15108375_Paul_Newman%3A_Hollywood_Lege nd%2C_Star_Of_Butch_Cassidy_And_The_Sundance_Kid_D ies_Aged%2C_83)

RIP Paul Newman

[SHIZL]

rip one of the greatest actors/race car ambassadors of all time he will be missed

[Jona]

RIP Paul, you were one of the all-time greats.

[79rivers]

He will always be my hero. Winning races well past retirement age.

[philip]

Newman became interested in auto racing while filming the movie "Winning" in 1968, and quickly became a race car enthusiast. Over the years he won four Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) championships, won the GTS class in the 1995 24 hour race at Daytona, and sponsored race teams. In January 2005 Newman, then 79, escaped from his burning race car after it spun on track at the Daytona Beach circuit. He was not injured in the accident.


If we only all could do it so good on so many levels.

RIP

[Ghostbat]

He was the man. RIP!

[HeilSvenska]

Man. That makes me very sad. There's one less star shining in the sky, but he will never be forgotten.

[mts6800]

Sad news indeed. He will be missed in both racing and charity. More than just an actor his charitable contributions are significant.

A brief synopsis of those conributions, from wikipedia.org:


With writer A.E. Hotchner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.E._Hotchner), Newman founded Newman's Own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%27s_Own), a line of food (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food) products, in 1982. The brand started with salad dressing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaigrette), and has expanded to include pasta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta) sauce, lemonade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade), popcorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn), and salsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_%28sauce%29), and wine among other things. Newman established a policy that all proceeds from the sale of Newman's Own products, after taxes, would be donated to charity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization). As of early 2006, the franchise has resulted in excess of $200 million in donations. He co-wrote a memoir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir) about the subject with Hotchner, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shameless_Exploitation_in_Pursuit_ of_the_Common_Good&action=edit&redlink=1). Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Newman%27s_Own_First_Amendment_Award), a $25,000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) as it applies to the written word.

One beneficiary of his philanthropy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy) is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_Wall_Gang_Camp), a residential summer camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_camp) for seriously ill children, which is located in Ashford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford,_Connecticut), Connecticut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut). Newman cofounded the camp in 1988; it was named after the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid) (1969). Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Kappa_Tau), adopted "Hole in the Wall" as their "national philanthropy" in 1995. One camp has expanded to become several Hole in the Wall Camps in the U.S., Ireland, France and Israel. The camp serves 13,000 children every year, free of charge.

In June 1999 Newman donated $250,000 to the relief of Kosovo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo) refugees.

On June 1, 2007, Kenyon College (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyon_College) announced that Newman had donated $10 million to the school to establish a scholarship fund as part of the college's current $230 million fund-raising campaign. Newman and Woodward were honorary co-chairs of a previous campaign

[Mattk]

What a shock! A truly multi-talented man, and a man of great generosity. He'll be missed.

[Vansquish]

It is a sad day for motorsport and film. Newman was a man to be emulated and respected deeply. He will be missed.

RIP

[79TA]

awww, this was such sad news to come home to after a short trip. He was so much more than a typical actor not just because of his interest in motorsports but because of the tremendous and authentic passion he had for it. :crying: