This thread is fun because I am now remembering some encounters. I've run into a lot of famous people at car races. One of those was Dan Blocker from Bonanza fame. We were at the Can Am somewhere in the 60's at Riverside. We decide to get some tickets in the esses grandstands after coming in the gate. Turns out Blocker is up on the top row with several seats in the next row also reserved for his coolers and grill as well as his entourage.
So we're up there trying to watch the race with the big man looming above. He offers a few dogs to us which we devoured. He probably thought we were drinking a bit much and the food would help.
Not that he didn't have a few.
Harry Conick Sr. parked his Ferrari below the stands in T6.
I stood and watched Paul Newman discuss the track with Peter Brock in the pits.
What can I say? All I've ever done had to do with racing and building things house related. Never met one famous soul doing the houses.