Porsche 917/30 sells for $4.4 million at Gooding auction at Amelia Island. ... The late Mark Donohue, after having been sidelined by injury during the 1972 Can-Am season, ...

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 ...

Story by Kurt Ernst. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company Introduced to the Can-Am series in 1973, the Porsche 917/30 was the ultimate evolution of the storied Porsche 917 model ...

After Mark Donohue won every race of the 1973 season, save for one, ... This particular car is a 1972 Porsche 917/10. It sports a 5.0-liter, twin-turbo V12 making about 850 hp.

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 917/30 - 1600 horsepower For the ultimate Porsche in terms of output, ... Mark Donohue drove the 917/30 to six consecutive wins and won the championship by a big margin.

When Porsche initiated the 917 program in the late 1960s, hell-bent on winning Le Mans, ... They enlisted Roger Penske and Mark Donohue to help them ready the car for Can-Am duty.

On Wednesday morning, ­August 20, 1975, the phone rang in my dingy beige apartment in Burlington, Ontario. I had just put in 30 consecutive hours of writing, editing, and laying out race reports for ...

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.

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 ...