Check Out The Trailer For The Amazing Documentary WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN

If you’re a racing fan, there’s a great new documentary on the horizon on the amazing driving career of Paul Newman.

Perfectly timed to open over Memorial Day weekend, known for its infamous races the Coca-Cola 600 and Indianapolis 500, the new trailer for WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN looks at the actor who said in a 1973 interview, “If I could be a competitive automobile driver, I’d chuck this in a minute. It’s pretty hard to start something like that when you’re 47.”

This fascinating documentary – from Adam Carolla and co-director Nate Adams – features Paul Newman (archive footage), Robert Redford, Patrick Dempsey, Mario Andretti, Jay Leno, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward (archive footage), Arthur Newman, Tom Cruise (archive footage), Michael Andretti, Bob Sharp, Sam Posey, Sebastien Bourdais and many other racers.

The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. (There’s still nothing like watching the Hollywood powerhouse team of Newman and Steve McQueen in THE TOWERING INFERNO.)

He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman’s Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world.

Paul Newman died Sept. 26, 2008 and for those of us who grew up in Connecticut, we know his connections ran deep. He trained as a actor at Yale School of Drama, made his home in Westport, was a fixture at Lime Rock Park in Salisbury and founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford. Founded in 1988 by Newman, who was a seasonal resident of Ashford, the camp is a nonprofit center for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. The center started with 288 children in its first summer, and now serves thousands a year through on-site and outreach programs. The camp was named after the gang in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which Newman starred.

Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man’s makeup. Newman’s deep-seated passion for racing was so intense it nearly sidelined his acting career. His racing career spanned thirty-five years; Newman won four national championships as a driver and eight championships as an owner.

The Dick Barbour Racing team – including Dick Barbour and actor, Westport resident and auto racing enthusiast Paul Newman – came in second at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest endurance sports car race.

WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN will be in select theatres and iTunes on May 8th; Video on Demand on Friday, May 22.

For a list of cities showing the film, visit: http://www.newmanracingfilm.com/

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