27 Facts About Sam Posey

Samuel Felton Posey was born on May 26,1944 and is an American former racing driver and sports broadcast journalist.

Sam Posey was bought a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL when he was 14 years old, and practiced driving the car around his family farm.

Sam Posey received his first racing lessons from neighbor John Fitch.

Sam Posey started as an amateur sports car racer, and graduated to the Can-Am, in a car designed and funded by himself in collaboration with engineer friend Ray Caldwell.

Sam Posey raced the Sunoco Camaro for Roger Penske in 1968 in the Trans-Am Series.

Sam Posey sported a yellow spoiler and Donohue had a red spoiler.

In 1970, Sam Posey was the driver for Ray Caldwell's factory-backed Autodynamics Dodge Challenger in Trans-Am, racing against Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Mark Donohue and Jim Hall in what most racing historians regard as the greatest season of professional road racing in US history.

Sam Posey finished in the top ten 8 times, with his best finish in 3rd position in 1969 at the Kent road course.

Sam Posey was the team driver for Caldwell's Can-Am racer which featured monocoque aluminum construction in two parallel longitudinal space frames, with solid front and rear axles.

Sam Posey won the 1975 12 Hours of Sebring, teaming with three other drivers.

Sam Posey participated in two Formula One world championship events, the 1971 and 1972 United States Grand Prix, retiring from the first and finishing 12th in the second, thus not scoring any championship points.

Sam Posey drove Surtees cars on both occasions, but only the first was a works-entered car.

Sam Posey competed in a single event in the NASCAR Grand National Series, the first race of the 1970 season, held on the Riverside International Raceway road course in Riverside, California.

Sam Posey went on to become an auto racing commentator for ABC Sports.

Sam Posey debuted on ABC for the Indianapolis 500 in 1974, serving as analyst.

In subsequent years, he served as a pit reporter but would fill in when regular analyst Jackie Stewart was unavailable as Sam Posey was second choice as analyst.

Sam Posey returned to the booth starting in 1982 as Stewart reduced his workload.

Sam Posey was trying to ask Cogan about his thoughts in leading the Indianapolis 500 at this stage.

Cogan tried to stave off the conversation once, but Sam Posey persisted a second time, at which time Cogan politely replied to Sam Posey that he was "a little busy now," but would talk to him later.

In 1989, Sam Posey was brought in as part of the ABC Sports broadcast team covering the 1989 Tour de France.

Sam Posey worked as the play-by-play announcer for luge during ABC's coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

Sam Posey moved to Speedvision in 1996, covering various races namely sports car racing and Formula One.

Sam Posey is the author of Playing With Trains, a book on model railroading published by Random House and his layout was featured in the February 1995 issue of Model Railroader Magazine, and The Mudge Pond Express, an autobiography which centers around his personal racing career and love of the sport.

Since 1995, Sam Posey suffers from Parkinson's disease, which has attenuated his activities in recent years.

Sam Posey was the voice for the pre-race build-up montage slotted between the Mercedes-Benz Pre-Race Show and the actual race coverage for each Formula 1 race shown on the Speed Channel.

Sam Posey narrated F1 montages for the NBC Sports Network from 2013 to 2017.

Sam Posey was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2016.