Mark Vaughn
(Editor’s note: Below is a story featuring Autoweek’s last interview with John Paul Jr. in December of 2018. The story is an insightful look at Paul’s battle with Huntington’s disease.)
I didn’t know him personally, but I was lucky enough to be covering racing when John Paul Jr. was an active driver. Whenever he won, which was quite often, I was always glad because that meant there’d be an intelligent, considerate voice in the press room for the post-race interviews. John Paul Jr. was always one of the nicest guys in racing. If you didn’t know it, you’d never guess what he’d had to overcome. But everybody knew it. And everybody still liked John Paul Jr.