As a little girl growing up, I used to watch Formula One racing with my dad every weekend. It was so glamorous and exciting! He told me all the fascinating stories about the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and, of course, the dazzling racing career of Paul Newman.

I feel like my teen years hit right around the sudden popularity of Nascar, which my dad loved and I hated, so, it seemed like we had less and less in common, which is a normal part of growing up, I suppose, if a bit sad.

I'm in my mid 40's now, and I still struggle to find common ground with my nearly 70-year-old dad, so when he came over for Christmas dinner this year, I said; "Hey, the ham needs about an hour and a half to cook, whaddaya' say we watch this documentary about Paul Newman's racing career?" Well, let me just say that it's been a long time since I've seen that kind of enthusiasm from him!

This documentary is some of the best 90 minutes we've spent together in years! It's chock full of excitement and heart, and you can feel director Adam Carolla's passion for the subject in every frame. (For what it's worth, my dad is also a Carolla fan, as I've played several of his podcasts for him on long car trips, even though I cannot get my dad to figure out how to download them to his smartphone, dammit!)

It's a fantastically entertaining and enriching documentary, and it infused our Christmas dinner talk with lots of excited chatter, which, normally, I find myself struggling to maintain. So, thank you, Adam Carolla, for a great Christmas. I feel as though I owe it all to you.

This documentary is worthy of praise for its woven story that covers Paul's interest and career with racing. His acting is sprinkled in but like his life he was a rather capable man who wore multiple hats.

I suspect many people, even those who knew he raced, are likely to under appreciate his passion and success behind the wheel. Actor Steve McQueen seemingly gets more accolades and recognition for his diverse racing. Where as Paul was a four time SCCA National Championship driver plus 2nd overall at LeMans (1979) which is exceptional.

What isn't lost is how good of a person Paul was as well with his ventures and giving back. Also how personable he was to those who shared his passion. A decent guy who liked to joke but was dead serious about racing.

The film does very well with sourcing rare footage and on camera recollections from Robert Wagner, Sam Posey, Bob Sharp, Robert Redford, and others. A good pace to film makes this go very quick. My only complaint - I would've liked to have seen more on his brief time driving a 1971 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 to 5th overall at the 24-hrs of Daytona in 1977.

I grew up in a racing family, of sorts. My Dad raced Super Modifieds throughout New England as I was growing up so of course, it had a very big influence on me. Of all the amazing race car drivers in the world, I had 4 that idolized, Mario, Big E, Fittipaldi, & A.J. These guys were drivers I felt were naturals, born with the gift of greatness. Then there were the drivers that had an influence on me because their careers & lives were long shots that might not have happened without the character to find greatness within themselves. Those were the guys I wanted to be and "PL" was one of those guys. He blew my mind because he was an enigma to racing, I thought here's a guy that has no earthly business in anything with more than 100hp, let alone anything on a track in a competitive atmosphere. "Cool Hand Luke"!?! The friggin "Sundance kid"?! In a RaceCar!!?? No friggin way! I have, throughout the years read great stories about him, I watched just about every race he was in, that was televised, I knew a few people that knew him personally and literally everything about Paul Newman fascinated me. As I grew up, his story had an influence on me, now in my 50's, it's been a while since I have followed any driver, in fact since Dale JR retired, I haven't even so much as watched a race on tv. This movie is awesome! Thank you A.C for making it and thank you Amazon for having it. Prime is the perfect place for it. This film brings back a flood memories and I can't help reflecting on how certain icons in our lives live in the back of our minds as stalwarts to pull ourselves up with, you don't recognize them at the times of trouble but, here it is so many years later watching a movie about a guy that hasn't had a lot of relevance in my life for a long time and I'm like, "Oh yeah I remember this, that's where I picked that attitude up" LOL oh well, just can't say enough about this movie and "PL" himself, just very cool.

This documentary is a well-accomplished tribute to the side of "PL" that most Americans never got to know, other than fleetingly and as an aside to his acting and the Newman Foundation. It very accurately does depict the absolute veracity of the fact that Paul L Newman was a racer's racer, totally centered on the facts of racing. Having met and observed him several times as a course official [and low-level driver] at MidOhio Sportscar Course, I can directly attest to the accuracies of the movie. At the track, or for that matter away from the track if anything to do with driving was involved, his interest(s) and attention were solely on racing. Once, while he was on the pre-grid awaiting a race start, I saw him close his helmer shield and turn his head when another driver's wife started 'gushing' about movie roles. On the other hand, just before that, he and I had discussed extensively some of the nuances of the track, him wishing me good luck in another series a couple weeks later.

The only thing that didn't seem to come through fully, was that if one was a racing fan, he really was approachable, to talk about racing - nothing else. My frequent 'guest pit crew' pal had the chance to experience this also, when he encountered him at the track - the fact that he was there with a track official & driver, and was an enthusiast of all forms of auto racing, was all it took for them to get along for several minutes, before PL had to go prep for a practice.

I miss PL Newman, the driver -- much more than his other personae [though also a fan otherwise] -- and this movie brought it home to me. Thank you.

Don't see how anyone could give this anything less than 5 stars.

Wish some people were granted the gift of an additional life so that they could stay with us here for ANOTHER 90 years just because they are so cool, and so worthy, and so decent and interesting. We sorely need more people in our society like Paul. All we have now are degenerate imbeciles with zero class, and next to zero value as icons and as 'men'. I always likes Paul from the time I first saw him when I was small in Cool Hand Luke. And I do recall reading in the news when he had BEATEN everyone on the track while he was 83 years old. Some people truly deserve to live for 200 years just because they are so damned cool and valuable as a 'presence' on earth.

This perfectly-paced film about Paul Newman, champion race car driver, is about the late star's life as a racer and his undying passion to continue to better his competency behind the wheel. I say "competency" because, judging by this lovely film and everything else I've read about Paul Newman, that's precisely the kind of understated term Mr. Newman would have preferred.

Paul Newman, this film shows us, took on the art of driving well with a deliberate, humble, let's-get-this-right-if-it-takes-all-night approach. Here was a man not afraid of making mistakes—this, a lesson borrowed from his acting—who even invited error as a way of probing the perimeters of the possible, a way of becoming a better and better man. It's that breed of humility and deliberation that makes this documentary such an important and fittingly executed work: it simply tells the story of this amazing driver without pumping up the nostalgia, without needless flash and fanfare, and with the quiet, surehanded style required of its subject.

In a clip included in the film, Paul Newman says that he took part of every role he played and built it, permanently, into his own character. Remember when "Fast Eddie" Felson says (of Minnesota Fats), in The Hustler, "I beat him all night and I'm gonna beat him all day"? It's such a great line, because Fast Eddie means it. He ain't kidding around, and you know it. It's in Paul Newman's eyes.

Director Adam Carolla (who, to be frank, is equal-parts hilariously trenchant social commentator and irretrievable ignoramus: he has suggested, unapologetically, that men into cooking are, by definition, "losers" and that the Cecil [the lion]-killing dentist—who, with the release of a single arrow, made everyone's world a little smaller—should escape judgement because "he pays his taxes") depicts a man who revelled in the chance to show on the track that indeed he could, at the young age of 48 and later at 82, beat 'em all night (literally speaking, at Le Mons) and then beat them all day. Mostly, though, it shows us a man who wanted to be part of a team of extraordinary people, running the right lines at the right speeds in a perfectly tuned car, then hear from the other drivers that he ran a good race, and then wake up and do it again. He wanted to do this and this and the other things—like raising hundreds of millions for charity and giving sick kids a camp to forget their troubles—not because they were easy but because they were hard, and because it all propelled him closer, to use Newman's word, to a kind of "grace."

You'll have a tough time finding anything wrong with this documentary, whether you're a car racing fan—or, for that matter, an Adam Corolla fan—or not. It'll sweep you up; it'll put you in the passenger seat and take you around the track, right next to The Man with the cerulean blue eyes. And if you're not a fan of Paul Newman—especially after seeing this gem of a doc—well, then God help you.

I'm not a film critic but I do know racing and things I can watch time and time again. Paul Newman, the handsome movie star, started racing at the ripe old age of [watch this doc] which only speaks toward this man's passion. When this man finds something to not just dabble in but rather be great at, he does it. Acting, racing, being a husband, a charitable straight up man of this world, he does it the best he can.

If you love Paul Newman you know all this already and this great director put it together in a way you can show to others with pride. It's almost as if he loves racing himself! Myself, I enjoy the ever loving shift to 4th gear out of this doc and can watch it just as I can watch On Any Sunday on any Friday after work to relax. I see others watching this with me with their eyes wide open and really learning about Mr. Newman's soul...not just racing.

If you want to just flip burgers and have a movie on your shelf to show off, buy this; some one will watch it for you. If you are tired of that or slopping tar on shower bottoms for a living and want to see what a driven person feels, I think this is a great portal to a man that knows passion in anything he does.

A winning person looks up to people like this guy, not just those that are great in your field. If you're the best at one thing, can you also do 3 others things the best like this guy did? However, this particular film stands out because it was made for all of us and not just racers. They really highlight the passion and not just racing. Buy it for any teen that doesn't have a clue what is coming up next in their life. It's motivational to me an to kids alike.

Great Documentary! If you are a Fan of Paul Newman, Racing, Or Salad Dressing, this Doc is a great watch! It takes you into the other side of Paul Newman, and his obsession with racing. Its great to see Newman as passionate about something other than his movies. It gives even more depth to the great actor. Its a short fun informative documentary that was produced by Adam Corolla. Don't miss this treat!