Oklahoma tie: Newman won ’82 auto race on Hallett track, quarreled with bikini-clad official
Paul Newman ’s brush with Oklahoma was rife with drama befitting a dashing Hollywood leading man and noted auto racing enthusiast: a record-setting race victory, controversy and scantily-clad women.
Newman, then 57, won the GT-1 division in a Sports Car Club of America race at the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit west of Tulsa on June 20, 1982. The two-time SCCA national champ piloted his Datsun 280-ZX to a ...
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