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John Paul Jr My Favorite Race and kept us running on five cylinders, then it was so loud I could hardly stand it. The JOHN PAUL JR. loudest car I have ever been in. I didn’t wear ear plugs because I wanted to feel and hear the 1982 Sebring 12 Hours of Endurance motor, but I started wearing them after that. I BY GARY WITZENBURG | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB HARMEYER couldn’t hear for two weeks after that race.” “The only way to keep the car going was OHN LEE PAUL JR.’S LIFE and JLP while jumping back and forth between observed in 1982. “He has the makings of to pull that spark plug so we wouldn’t have Jracing career is a story of amazing talent their 935 and a customer Lola T600. By then a future great.” Yet while Junior’s talent for compression in the damaged cylinder, then and luck—much of it good, too much of it clearly quicker than his father, Junior won going fast was clear, it was also raw as he too- JLP mechanic John Shapiro remembers. horribly bad. As a wannabe kid racer, he was two races (Pocono and the Daytona season often rashly overdrove and attempted foolish “Then we had to block fuel from the damaged lucky to have a champion racer father with finale) in the 935 and finished 2nd in 1981 passes, leading to crashes. Paul Sr. admitted cylinder so we wouldn’t have flames coming sufficient means to launch and support his GTP points. that his son was now quicker than he was, out of the spark plug hole. We couldn’t career to the point where, just two years after In less time than it takes most young men but also more prone to mistakes. just disconnect the fuel line because it was high school, he was co-piloting top IMSA GT to figure out who they are and what they want Senior built a tube-frame 935 for 1982 mechanical injection, so crew chief Jim Weber equipment. But unlucky that his irascible, hot- to do, Junior had evolved from “hopeless” to and co-drove it with Junior and endurance came up with a fix. We unscrewed the fuel tempered father was earning that money as a a top-rung racer in IMSA’s fastest class. But ace Rolf Stommelen to a dominating Daytona line and put a ball bearing on top of the drug smuggler. winning the confidence of his demanding and 24-Hour win, then followed with the victory injector so when we replaced the fuel line, it After attending a Skip Barber school (where critical father was not easy. “When I came in at Sebring. The rest of that season brought blocked off the fuel. All that horrific noise was his instructor judged him “hopeless”), then from practice,” he says, “Dad would stick his Miller Beer sponsorship, seven more wins and compression coming out of the spark plug surprisingly earning an invitation to the SCCA head in the window. If he pointed up, I was the championship for Junior, IMSA’s youngest hole. It was louder than the exhaust, like a National Championship “Runoffs” in 1979 in a good. If he pointed down, I was no good. ever GTP champion at age 22. machine gun going off!” Formula Ford, he won his very first IMSA GT And I was bad at first, especially my first six “That was a brand-new, tube-frame car,” he After checking his records, then crew chief race co-driving his dad’s JLP Racing Porsche months of driving. It took me forever to learn relates. “Our previous JLPs lifted their inside Weber tells us more: “The ground strap on the The tube-frame Porsche 935 began the 1982 season with a win in the 24 Hours at Daytona, the Pauls teamed with 935 at Lime Rock the following year. Another the tracks, and I got lapped every race. I was front wheels in corners, so you would be on alternator broke from vibration and was not Rolf Stommelen, who taught Paul Jr. the important secrets of endurance racing. win (Road America) and three 2nd-place slow because I didn’t know how to heel/toe, three wheels much of the time. All the tires charging the battery, and the ignition system finishes earned him 4th in 1980 IMSA GT so learning that and learning the tracks were on that new car stayed on the ground, but it started to fail due to low voltage. We also “But all race long, when we put Junior small child, and this was one of my favorite standings. The next season saw IMSA launch key. When I got faster, Dad said he was happy was hot, and that track was so bumpy that my broke a throttle cable during the race. Two in the car, he moved us right up to the top wins working in motor racing!” its hot new GTP class with mixed results for for me.” glasses bounced up and down. We lost two hours before the finish, we fire-slotted cylinder of the leaderboard. He drove the wheels off “Everyone worked hard on that car,” Junior Soon others took note. “John Paul Jr. is gears, had third and fourth only, which was four between the head and the cylinder, and that car yet was extremely gentle with it on a relates. “We had just won the Daytona 24- one of the finest young drivers I’ve ever seen really slow in the hairpin, the battery shorted that was the issue with the motor, not the totally unforgiving track. I don’t believe any Hour without a single problem, the only time race anywhere,” said Bobby Unser in 1981. out, we had a wastegate issue and burned a piston. About three hours before the end, the other driver would have been able to perform I ever had no problems, so we were feeling “One of the best young drivers I’ve ever seen,” piston. The crew pulled out the spark plug transmission was getting much harder to shift as well as he did. I have fond memories of good. But that added extra pressure. Then we added Junior Johnson. “One of the hottest in the lower gears. attending Sebring races from when I was a had all those problems at Sebring, the most race drivers in the world,” Hurley Haywood problems I ever had and still won. That is why winning that race despite them makes “We lost two gears, had third and fourth only, it my favorite. It was simply amazing that which was really slow in the hairpin, the battery we won that race, and we were very lucky shorted out, we had a wastegate issue and burned to have the awesome crew that made that happen.” a piston. The crew pulled out the spark plug and Junior’s luck turned mostly bad the kept us running on five cylinders, then it following year. First, his father shot a was so loud I could hardly stand it.” witness who was preparing to testify against him in a federal drug-smuggling case. The witness survived, Paul Sr. disappeared, and the JLP team dissolved after a 2nd-place at Miami. Then, after realizing his dream of an Indianapolis 500 drive, Junior crashed heavily Although the JLP Porsche had zero problems at Daytona in 1982, at Sebring the opposite was true, but they soldiered on and won. 26 VINTAGE MOTORSPORT JUL/AUG 2020 VINTAGEMOTORSPORT.COM 27 My Favorite Race JOHN PAUL JR. 1982 Sebring 12 Hour John Paul Jr. credits crew chief Jim Weber for solving the problem of a dropped cylinder and a crew who refused to lose. JOHN PAUL JR. COLLECTION JR. JOHN PAUL “But all race long, when we put Junior in the car, he moved us right up to the top of the leaderboard. He drove the wheels off that car yet was extremely gentle with it on a totally unforgiving track. I don’t believe any other driver would have been able to perform as well as he did” in practice. “My feet hit first,” he relates. “I the effects of Huntington’s, the inherited could feel all the broken bones…the worst degenerative neurological disease that had pain I’ve ever had. They had to do bone grafts already taken his grandmother, his mother from my hip for my shattered ankle because and his sister. “My driving got erratic,” he I didn’t have enough bone left to fix it. They says. “I couldn’t go fast anymore. Before long, told me it was like my ankle was full of I couldn’t drive a regular car. I couldn’t drive cobblestones.” anything. It was gone. Huntington’s had taken Still in throbbing pain after hobbling on over. I was only 39 years old.” He retired from crutches for a week, he wedged back into his racing in 2001 and worked for a while as a VDS car two races later at Cleveland, where driving instructor. his engine blew. Then—left leg still in a cast— He lives today in Los Angeles, participating he made a bold, last-lap, last-turn pass of Rick in a UCLA study hoping to find treatment and Mears for a surprise win at the July Michigan a cure for this awful disease in whatever time 500, just his fourth Indy car start. He finished he has left, and that his son and daughter don’t 8th in CART season points, then drove a get it. He had a 50/50 chance of Huntington’s variety of cars for different teams—including and was terribly unlucky to find himself on the a co-drive of Preston Henn’s Porsche 956 to a wrong end of those odds.
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