To everyone in the racing community that Paul Newman has touched over the years I wanna say thank you for your support on this project. I wanna Thank Kathi Lauterbach from NHL, and everyone from NHL that helped us make this presentation possible today! I personally wanna thank Graham Rahal for all the help and guidance.
I wanna extend my thanks to Darice Wirth who has been Paul's assistant for a number of years and without her this also would have not been possible.
Over the last week, I recieved hundred of e-mails saying "do us racing fans proud" with this project, and I hope we lived up to the hype? Jimmy Dolan captured every aspect of Paul's career whether it was movies or racing and we tried to fit everything on a 1:18th scale Lola. I think he did a magnificent job as we may have needed a few 1/2 scale Brinkworth cars to get everything but we did our best. I hope we can get some pictures from Paul or Joanna of the car at some point, but I truly understand the circumstances right now and I know I speak for everyone who knows Paul, that his privacy should be respected right now and we all wish him and his family the best.
As far as the style and car we chose to use, nothing symbolizes NH like the classic black and white cars of the 90's. I didn't wanna use a Reynard or a car that looked similiar to what was available to the public so I went with a custom Lola chassis, and took the Bourdais style rookie design and went to work with that. I also have some 8x10 pics Joe Cifarella did which we sent off with the car. I will post them when I get the jpeg files.
Thanks again to everyone!
Gary
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