For 1975, Talladega organizers invited Roger Penske and Mark Donohue to try and beat Foyt. Donohue would attempt the record in a Porsche 917/30, the car he took to victory in six out of eight ...

“Among the explorers was American Mark Donohue, a successful race ... ready for the 1973 motorsport season, Porsche presented its answer: the 917/30.” And we all know what happened after ...

Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed the Blue Oval, all its ...

It is not a period racing car, but it is the fifth 917/30 chassis made and was Mark Donohue's spare chassis for the 1973 season. Like most car manufacturers, there came a time when Porsche no ...

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 ...

In 1975 Mark Donohue took a 917/30 to a new closed-course lap record of 221.160mph at Talladega. Six years later, Porsche independent Kremer Racing responded to rule changes and entered a heavily ...

McLaren had been so dominant in Can-Am that race fans began calling the series “The Bruce and Denny Show” in reference to Bruce McLaren and Denis Hulme, the two Kiwis who so dominated the ...

Perhaps the greatest moment in Porsche lore is when Mark Donohue set a world closed-course ... 221.12 miles per hour in a modified Porsche 917/30, a record that would stand until 1987.

Related: Vic Elford, on driving the Porsche 917. That isn’t to say the car came without a learning curve. At the 917/30’s first race, Can-Am Mosport in June of 1973, Mark Donohue set the ...

Both are at Talladega in an attempt to set six records--three apiece--to commemorate similar records set here 30 years ago by race driver Mark Donohue and a Porsche 917/30 Can Am race car.