John Paul Jr. (racing driver)
John Paul Jr. | |||||||
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Born | John Lee Paul Jr. February 19, 1960 1983 Michigan 500 (Michigan ) | ||||||
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IndyCar Series career | |||||||
24 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 11th (1998) | ||||||
First race | 1996 Indy 200 at Walt Disney World (Orlando) | ||||||
Last race | 1999 Mall.com 500 (Texas) | ||||||
First win | 1998 Lone Star 500 (Texas) | ||||||
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NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
2 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 56th (1991) | ||||||
First race | 1991 Miller Genuine Draft 500 (Pocono) | ||||||
Last race | 1991 Budweiser at The Glen (Watkins Glen) | ||||||
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John Lee Paul Jr.
During his career, Paul was a twice winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona, the first of these was while co-driving with his father, John Paul Sr. A few weeks later, the pair won the 1982 12 Hours of Sebring. Paul also triumphed in another major U.S. race, the 1983 Michigan 500.
Beside racing with his father, Paul also joined his father in criminal activities, in particular a drug smuggling operation.[2] In May 1986, Paul Jr. received a five-year sentence for racketeering, with the drug charges dropped.[3] Paul Sr. was found guilty, served time for a number of crimes, and disappeared in 2001.
Career
Beginnings
After graduating from high school, Paul Jr. started working for his father's team, JLP Racing, learning the ins and outs of what a racing organization was. He became some kind of jack-of-all-trades within the team. As Paul Jr. started to learn about engines, his father decided his son needed to go to a racing school. He was enrolled at the Skip Barber Racing School, but Paul Jr. was deemed to be hopeless. Despite this setback, Paul Sr. bought his son a new Van Diemen Formula Ford. In 1979, he took part in SCCA National Formula Ford races, and made the SCCA National Championship Runoffs.[4]
1980s
Paul Jr.'s career really launched in 1980, when he became part of JLP Racing's driver line-up. His first race was at Coca-Cola 400 at
During the 1981 season the Porsche team faced a new challenge from the Lola T600. The Chevrolet-powered prototype with its better handling, driven by Englishman Brian Redman, quickly dominated the IMSA Championship. During the season, it became clear that only Junior could challenge for race victories, so Senior became JLP Racing's team manager, while Junior did the driving. Senior then only co-drove in the endurance races. Despite having the Lola, the Pauls won a rain-shortened race at Pocono in their Porsche 935 JLP-3. Using the same 935, Junior would go on to win the Daytona finale.[4][6]
The Pauls started the 1982 season with back-to-back wins in the US classic endurance races, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring. For the Daytona race, they were partnered by the 1977 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft Champion,
Outpowered by championship rival,
At the beginning of 1983 Paul Sr. shot federal witness Stephen Caron, who would testify about Paul's illegal activities. After finishing second in the Grand Prix of Miami in a JLP Racing Lola, the team would be dismantled following his father's disappearance. Paul Jr. was hired by Henn's Swap Shop Racing for both the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Road America Pabst 500 but these resulted in two DNFs.[4][6]
Away from IMSA, he tried his hand at CART racing, winning the
In 1984, Paul finished second in the
Paul Sr. was finally indicted, tried, and convicted, in 1985. Paul Jr. started the season with Conte Racing, who had switched to Buick engines, but these proved to be unreliable. In total, he had 11 DNFs in 11 IMSA starts. After wrecking his AMI Racing March-Cosworth 85C in Indianapolis 500, he would finish only one race, the Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix in 17th.[4][6][10]
Early in 1986, Paul Jr. broke his string of seventeen IMSA DNFs by finishing second at Road Atlanta alongside Whitney Ganz for RC Buick Hawk, in their March-Buick 85G.[4][6]
1990s
Following his release from prison in October 1988, Paul Jr. returned to racing in 1989. In CART, he only drove in the Indianapolis 500 from 1990 to 1994, but he made his comeback in IMSA. His first season back he drove in six races for five teams. The best result was a fourth place in the Grand Prix of San Antonio for Momo/Gebhardt Racing.[4][11]
A full-time return to sportscar racing was possible in 1990, when he was offered a ride by Jim Busby, who had entered a Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo. In only his second race for the team, Paul and Kevin Cogan were on the podium after taking second place in the Grand Prix of Miami. Following a fifth place in Sebring, the Nissan was maintained by Seabrooke Racing. He ended the season with two second places in the World Challenge of Tampa and Grand Prix of Greater San Diego (Del Mar). His reward was 8th in the overall standings, but as he found, a lot of things had changed in these four seasons he missed. Full factory supported teams like Tom Walkinshaw Racing (Jaguar), Electramotive (Nissan) and All American Racers (Toyota) were now the ones to beat.[4][11]
In 1991 Paul ran a short IMSA schedule, taking in just seven races. Although the bulk of these were with Gunnar Racing in their Gunnar 966, it was in Hotchkiss Racing's underpowered
During the 1992 season, Paul experienced his first ever
The 1993 season started with Paul co-driving with Moretti along with Derek Bell at the Daytona and Sebring endurance races in a Nissan NPT-90. The trio were joined by Massimo Sigala for Daytona, and were leading when the car began to experience engine problems, but it still finished sixth. Sebring proved kinder to them, as they finished second. Paul then switched to Gunnar Racing for a few races. He was able to take one last podium finish, a second-place at Road American, driving a Porsche 962 for Joest Racing.[4][11]
1994 saw IMSA become the World Sports Cars Championship [WSC] and Paul only raced twice in the new series. He joined
For 1995, Paul would race for Dyson Racing in the WSC and for the Prototype Technology Group (BMW M3) in the IMSA GTS, as many races were at the same event. He recorded two top three finishes for Dyson aboard their Riley & Scott Mk III: second place with Butch Leitzinger in the Moosehead Grand Prix, and a third place with Andy Wallace in the Texas World Grand Prix.[11]
He continued with Dyson Racing into 1996. Paul recorded four top three finishes in the last four races, including wins at the
In 1997, he competed with a contemporary IndyCar for the first time since 1985, and promptly finished 15th in the points. He also competed in the WSC with Dyson Racing. He continued where he left off in 1996 by winning at Daytona. His victory in the Rolex 24 at Daytona came as part of seven driver crew. This was followed by two victories, partnering Leitzinger in the
Paul Jr. started the 1998 season with
In his seven Indy 500 starts he had a best finish of seventh in 1998. He made his last IRL start the following season.[14]
2000s
The new millennium saw Paul return to his roots, sports car racing. He teamed up with Dyson Racing once again, and recorded four top three finishes, the best being a second in the U.S. Road Racing Classic, a 250-mile race at Mid-Ohio.[13]
Drug trafficking
Paul was lured into the drug trade at the age of 15, just to be with his father.[16][17] His first legal troubles were on January 10, 1979, when he and another accomplice were caught by customs agents loading equipment onto a pickup truck on the bank of a canal in the Louisiana bayous after dark. Following questioning, when one of them smelled cannabis on their clothing, his father was apprehended on his 42-foot boat named Lady Royale, where customs discovered residue of marijuana and $10,000 onboard. A rented truck was discovered nearby, which contained 1,565 pounds (710 kg) of marijuana.[18] In court, all three pleaded guilty to marijuana possession charges, where each was placed on three years' probation and fined $32,500.[19]
Paul's racing career was interrupted in May 1986, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking ring with his father and subsequent refusal to testify against him. He was sent to a minimum-security prison in Alabama. He served a total of 30 months, being released in October 1988.[20]
Retirement and death
Paul Jr. retired from professional racing in 2001 after noticing that the telemetry of the Corvette GT-1 he was testing did not match what he thought his feet were doing in the car. A subsequent medical evaluation confirmed he had Huntington's disease, a progressive neurological disorder.[21] [22]
In 2018, author and racing journalist Sylvia Wilkinson published a book about Paul Jr., titled 50/50, The Story of Champion Race Car Driver John Paul Jr. and his Battle with Huntington's Disease.[23]
Paul Jr. died on December 29, 2020, in Woodland Hills, California.[24][25]
Racing record
Career highlights
American Open Wheel racing results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
CART
Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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1982 | Miller Beer | PHX
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ATL | MIL
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CLE | MCH
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MIL
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POC
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RIV | ROA 21 |
MCH
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PHX
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49th | 0 | [67] | ||||||
1983 | Racing Team VDS | ATL 3 |
INDY DNQ |
MIL
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CLE 21 |
MCH 1 |
ROA 5 |
POC 29 |
RIV 3 |
MDO 20 |
MCH 7 |
CPL 2 |
LAG 26 |
PHX 11 |
8th | 84 | [68] | ||||
1984 | Racing Team VDS | LBH 20 |
PHX DNS |
INDY DNQ |
MIL |
POR |
MEA |
CLE |
17th | 28 | [69] | ||||||||||
Primus Racing | MCH DNS |
POC 17 |
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Patrick Racing | ROA 6 |
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Provimi Veal | MDO 9 |
SAN |
MCH 22 |
PHX |
LAG 11 |
CPL 3 |
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1985 | AMI Racing | LBH | INDY 15 |
MIL
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POR | MEA | CLE 17 |
MCH
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ROA
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POC
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MDO
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SAN
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MCH
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LAG | PHX
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MIA | 43rd | 0 | [70] | ||
1986 | Team ASC | PHX | LBH | INDY Wth |
MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | TOR | MCH | POC | MDO | SAN | MCH | ROA | LAG | PHX | MIA | NC | – | [71] |
1989 | Mann Motorsports | PHX | LBH | INDY DNQ |
MIL | DET 19 |
POR | LAG DNQ |
44th | 0 | [72] | ||||||||||
Bettenhausen Motorsports | CLE 16 |
MEA 21 |
TOR | ||||||||||||||||||
Dale Coyne Racing | MCH DNQ |
POC | MDO | ROA | NAZ | ||||||||||||||||
1990 | Mann Motorsports | PHX | LBH | INDY 16 |
MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | DEN | VAN | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | 37th | 0 | [73] | |
1991 | Mann Racing | SRF | LBH | PHX | INDY 25 |
MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | DEN | VAN | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | 49th | 0 | [74] |
1992 | Mann Development | SRF
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PHX | LBH | INDY 10 |
DET | POR | MIL | NHA | TOR | MCH | CLE | ROA | VAN | MDO | NAZ | LAG | 29th | 3 | [75] | |
1993 | D.B. Mann | SRF | PHX | LBH | INDY DNQ |
MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | NHM | ROA | VAN | MDO | NZR | LAG | NC | – | [76] | |
1994 | ProFormance Motorsports | SRF | PHX 18 |
LBH | INDY 25 |
MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | MDO | NHM | VAN | ROA | NZR | LAG | 45th | 0 | [77] |
IndyCar
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Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Rank | Points | Ref | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996 | PDM Racing | WDW 9 |
PHX 14 |
INDY 31 |
15th | 153 | [78] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–97 | PDM Racing | NHM 10 |
LVS 15 |
WDW 18 |
PHX 9 |
INDY Wth |
TXS | PPIR | CLT 11 |
NH2 7 |
LVS 12 |
15th | 163 | [79] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 | PDM Racing | WDW 10 |
PHX 19 |
11th | 216 | [80] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team Pelfrey | INDY 7 |
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Byrd -Cunningham Racing
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TXS 16 |
NHM 26 |
DOV 21 |
CLT 6 |
PPIR 15 |
ATL 23 |
TXS 1 |
LVS 4 |
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1999 | Byrd -Cunningham Racing
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WDW 11 |
PHX 22 |
CLT C |
INDY Wth |
TXS | PPIR | ATL | DOV | PPI2 | LVS | 28th | 39 | [81] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCormack Motorsports | TXS 18 |
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2001 | Zali Racing | PHX | HMS | ATL | INDY DNQ |
TXS | PPIR | RIR | KAN | NSH | KTY | STL | CHI | TX2 | NC | – | [82] |
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Winston Cup Series
Winston Cup Series results
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | NWCC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||
1991 | Team Ireland | 53 | Chevy | DAY | RCH
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CAR
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ATL
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DAR
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BRI
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NWS | MAR
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TAL
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CLT | DOV
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SON | POC
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MCH
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DAY
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POC 32 |
TAL
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GLN 16 |
MCH DNQ |
BRI
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DAR
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RCH
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DOV
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MAR
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NWS | CLT
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CAR
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PHO
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ATL
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56th | 182 | [83] |
Indianapolis 500 results
Year | Chassis | Engine | Start | Finish | Ref |
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1983 | Penske | Cosworth | Practice Crash | [84] | |
1984 | Penske | Cosworth | Practice Crash | [85] | |
1985 | March | Cosworth | 24th | 15th | [86] |
1986 | March | Buick | Failed to Qualify | [87] | |
1989 | March | Cosworth | Failed to Qualify | [88] | |
1990 | Lola | Buick | 32nd | 16th | [86] |
1991 | Lola | Buick | 25th | 25th | [86] |
1992 | Lola | Buick | 19th | 10th | [86] |
1993 | Lola | Buick | Qualifying Crash | [89] | |
1994 | Lola | Ilmor | 30th | 25th | [86] |
1996 | Lola | Menard-Buick | 17th | 31st | [86] |
1997 | Dallara | Oldsmobile | Practice Crash | [90] | |
1998 | Dallara | Oldsmobile | 16th | 7th | [86] |
1999 | G-Force | Oldsmobile | Practice Crash | [91] | |
2001 | G-Force | Oldsmobile | Failed to Qualify | [92] |
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Team | Co-Drivers | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
Ref |
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1980 | IMSA | 73 | G | Porsche 935 JLP-2 | J.L.P. Racing | John Paul Sr. Guy Edwards |
312 | 9th | 2nd | [93] |
1982 | IMSA GTX |
72 | D | Ferrari 512BB/LM | North American Racing Team | Alain Cudini John Morton |
306 | 9th | 4th | [94] |
1984 | C1 | 26 | G | Porsche 956 | Henn's T-Bird Swap Shop | Jean Rondeau | 358 | 2nd | [95] | |
1995 | GT1 | 30 | G | Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 | ZR1 Corvette Team | Chris McDougall James Mero |
57 | DNF | [96] |
Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results
Complete 12 Hours of Sebring results
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- ^ "Sebring 12 Hours 1985". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ^ "Sebring 12 Hours 1986". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
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