Mark Donohue once famously said “If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.” He was talking about the all ...

The late Mark Donohue, after having been sidelined by injury during the 1972 Can-Am season, took the controls of the 917/30--widely regarded to be one of the most flat-out radical racing cars ever ...

Porsche’s 917 is 50. To mark the occasion, we look back at its spectacular racing career and get behind the wheel of a freshly restored example ...

After Mark Donohue won every race of the 1973 season, save for one, in a 1580-hp version of the 917, the SCCA fun police stepped in and introduced a 3-mpg minimum fuel-economy rule.

Records are meant to be broken, and in August of 2012 a 917/10 once raced by Mark Donohue crossed the block in Monterey, selling for a fee-inclusive price of $5.83 million and displacing 917/30 ...

Built in several versions, the 917 won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice in the early 1970s, as well as the 1973 Can-Am season, when Mark Donohue shattered all competition.

Gallery: Check out This Porsche 917/30 Flat-12 Shot in Intricate Detail This is the engine from Mark Donohue's Can-Am car. By Mark Vaughn Published: May 18, 2020 9:12 AM EDT Save Article ...

Perhaps the greatest moment in Porsche lore is when Mark Donohue set a world closed-course record for the fastest average lap speed in history. All that time ago, Donohue managed to run an ...

Porsche is celebrating the 50th anniversary of an important moment in its history-when a one-off 917 race car first took to public roads instead of the track. On April 28, 1975, the specially ...

Penske and Porsche have worked together before, dating back to their work together in the Can-Am series when George Follmer and Mark Donohue both took Porsche 917/10 cars to championships in 1982 ...

Matt Rainey/The Star-LedgerMark Donohue' grave in Summit, N.J. Rocker Mark Knofler recently penned a song about Mr. Donohue. As a boy, Mark Knopfler spent class time at Gosforth Grammar School in ...

They enlisted Roger Penske and Mark Donohue to help them ready the car for Can-Am duty. While the 917 PA Spyder had been running in the series for a couple of years, it hadn't proven particularly ...