link . . .Mario wrote:
> It was on earlier this week.
>
> As usual, the same "boring" old crap from a "know-nothing" like David, asking
> interesting and humorous questions of Bourdais and Newman about how Paul came
> into CART in 1983 after Can-Am died, saying that he got a phone call from Carl
> Haas when he ran out of a place to sell his chassis.
>
> Paul: "I know you Carl, you've always delivered your cars late and overweight"
>
> Carl: "How about If we had Mario Andretti as a driver"
>
> Paul: "Where do I show up?"
>
>
> Later on...
>
> David: "Does your wife support your racing?"
> Paul: (about his last race at Lime Rock in November) "She gave me my helmet and
> told me that it was my last race" "Then I went from 3rd. to finish first and
> she (Joanne Woodward) said "Never stop racing, and always ignore what I tell
> you""
>
> ---
>
> Even later:
>
> Paul Shaeffer: "How old is he?"
> Letterman: "82"
>
> Audience: "applause!"
>
> Letterman later called Bourdais Newman's "Paper Boy".
http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=avceNet15BA