Alain de Cadenet, who found success as a sports car racer and went on to fame as a television host in several series about great old race cars, has passed away at 77 on July 2, 2022, of cancer in California. Here de Cadenet is in his British Post Office sponsored Mirage GR7 Ford in the May 27,1978 Can-Am race held at Charlotte Motor Speedway the day before the NASCAR World 600. He would finish 10th in the race. That weekend he let me take a photo of NASCAR star Cale Yarborough sitting in his car wearing a cowboy hat which ran in Autoweek.
Tim Richmond in the uphill Esses at Watkins Glen driving the S&M Electric Lightning/Offy at the CART Kent Oil 150 in August 1979. This was Richmond's second Indy Car start of the nine he would run before switching to Winston Cup in 1980. His eighth-place finish was his best in Indy Car races, one above the ninth place in the 1980 Indianapolis 500 where he was named Rookie of the Year. "I busted up a few Indy cars right after that," he said. "Milwaukee, Mid-Ohio, at Michigan I cut one in two. I was afraid my racing career would come to a halt. So, when I got an offer to drive stock cars, I took it, and it turned out I liked driving them better."
Paul Newman at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia at a SCCA National Championship race June 27, 1976. After Bob Tullius of Group 44 moved on to race the V12 Jaguar E Type, his Triumph TR6 and parts went to new owner Paul Newman who raced it with success, including winning the 1976 D Production SCCA National Championship at Road Atlanta later in the year. It is on the way to that championship that we see Newman in the car at Summit Point. He went on to beat Bob Tullius in the new TR7 in this race. 1976 was the first of his four SCCA national titles. His finest achievement was at the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hours, where he finished second in a Dick Barbour Racing Porsche 935, alongside team owner Barbour and Rolf Stommelen.
