Sam Posey

Samuel Felton Posey (born May 26, 1944)[1] is an American former racing driver and sports broadcast journalist.

Samuel Felton Posey, was killed in the Battle of Okinawa when a kamikaze struck his ship, the USS Henrico.

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

Other finishes were: Meadowdale, 3rd; St Jovite, 3rd; Bryar, 6th; Watkins Glen, 2nd which was the only race that Donohue was beaten by a Camaro in 1968.

Posey also raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1969 and 1972-1974 seasons, with 13 career starts, including the 1972 Indianapolis 500.

He 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.

The three-man booth of Page, Posey, and Unser was a fixture of Indy car racing during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The friction reached a level such that beginning in 1993 at the Indy 500, Unser moved out of the booth and began reporting from a remote location in turn two.

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

He also did essay work for the coverage of the Tour de France on OLN/Versus (later known as NBCSN), serving as the "Race Historian", and wrote for Road & Track magazine.

Posey is also the author of Playing With Trains, a book on model railroading published by Random House and his layout (the Colorado Midland) 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.