Sam Posey
Actor · b. 1944 · New York City, New York, USA
Sam Posey, born on May 26, 1944, in New York City, is a retired American racing driver, television commentator, and writer known for his versatility on and off the track. Posey competed in diverse motorsport categories, including Formula One, sports car racing, and the Indianapolis 500. His racing career includes notable performances in events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Can-Am series. After retiring from professional driving, Posey became a respected motorsports commentator, lending his voice to Formula One, IndyCar, and other racing broadcasts. His articulate style and deep knowledge of the sport have made him a beloved figure in American motorsports media.
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Movie7.6DocumentaryThe 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. 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. 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. Not bad for a guy who didn't even start racing until he was forty-seven years old.
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015 · 26 votes
Movie4.2DocumentaryIn the world of 1970s car racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and collected. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and Trans-Am champion, Haywood was a Hollywood archetype: a strikingly handsome man brought up by a good Midwestern family. Yet Haywood was often overshadowed by racing partner and volatile mentor, Peter Gregg—the Batman to his Robin—whose abrupt suicide in 1980 shook the sport to its core. And yet Haywood had secrets of his own. Despite multiple encounters with women, some that included public appearances alongside Penthouse models, he remained elusive about his personal life. With deft use of archival footage and exclusive interviews featuring actor and fellow racer, Patrick Dempsey, Hurley reveals a greater insight into Haywood’s tightrope walk between career and sexuality, while posing the question—will motorsport ever be ready for openly LGBT racers?
Hurley
2019 · 6 votes
MovieTHE SPEED ODYSSEY takes you on the wildest ride in road racing. 1966 - 1973 CAN AM CHALLENGE CUP: An epic adventure in an era of change and discovery, where heroic drivers from Formula One and around the world battle in their brutally fast CAN AM machines on the daunting race tracks across North America It was the quintessential COUNTER-CULTURE. Unique to the world, the CAN AM rule book had few restrictions, a championship which created the world's fastest most powerful road racing cars. These radical machines and their famed innovations pushed the limits and sometimes beyond.