11/10/2009
This web site is dedicated to the memory of Mark Donohue. Mark was a
multiple SCCA National Champion, as well as the 1972 Indy 500 winner, 1968-69-71
SCCA Trans Am Champion, 1973 SCCA Can Am Champion, and inaugural IROC Champion.
There are many pictures of cars that Mark Donohue was involved with, so please
take your time and browse thru the galleries below and reminisce. You can see
and read how a nice guy finished first, many times.
We are pleased to announce that the Mark Donohue Reunion 2010 will
be held at the Road America racing facility in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on July
15-18, 2010 with the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman.
Rick
Dresang, Michael Argetsinger and I had a meeting with Mike Kertscher, Project
Manager at Road America and George Bruggenthies, President and GM at Road
America about having a Donohue Reunion at the Vintage race week end on July
15-18, 2010. Everyone involved thought it was a great idea and now we are
proceeding forward with it.
We are going to have a tent for our group to put all of the cars in
and have a hospitality area for the car owners and crew members that will be
there. There will also be many events including the cars crew going downtown
Friday night and laps at Road America during the event. On Sunday morning we are
planning a breakfast at the track that will have many of Marks cars and key
peoplke who were involved in Marks career including Karl Kainhofer, John "Woody"
Woodard, Bill Preston, and Jerry Kroninger among others,
As many of you know Mark was very special in my life and I have always
tried to keep his memory alive thru my website for many years, for others to
remember and share there memorys thru, then we had the 2003 Donohue Reunion at
Watkins Glen where I think everyone had a great and memorable time. We also did
a Donohue Tribute at Watkins Glen Research Center and WGI in April 2009 for the
release of Michael Argetsingers book, Mark Donohue, Technical Excellence at
Speed that was a huge success.
As of Nov 1, 2009 the cars we are expecting in July 15-18, 2010 at
Road America, Matt Drendels Sunoco Porsche 917/30KL, Rusty Wests L&M Porsche
917 917/10KL, Rick Dresangs 73 Sunoco Eagle offy, IMS owned Indy winning Sunoco
McLaren M16B, Jere Clarks 71 AMC Javelin, Ken Epsons 69 Sunoco Camaro, Don Lee
and Tom McIntyres... 68 Sunoco Camaro's and Pat Ryans 67 lightweight Sunoco
Camaro, Bruce Canepa 70 AMC Javelin, Dockery Fords BP Mustang GT350, Carl Moores
Sunoco McLaren M6 Chev, Pat Ryans and Pat Hogans Sunoco Lola T70's, Lawrence
Stroll Sunoco Ferrari 512M, Robert N. Duseks Ferrari 275 that Mark co drove with
Walter Hangsen, Roger Penskes First National City Penske PC-1 F1 car, Joe
Pirrottas 68 Sunoco Eagle Chev that was Marks first IndyCar.
Michael Argetsinger, author of the acclaimed Mark Donohue book
released earlier this year, is pleased to announce that the photo biography of
Mark Donohue that is to be. The companion book to his earlier book has received
the go-ahead from David Bull Publishing. Argetsinger accumulated some 4,250
photos in preparation for his Donohue book, and 40 selected shots were in that
book. Michael will now cull through the remaining 4200 and select a few hundred
pictures which will form the core of this second book. Michael will write a
short narrative to connect the photos and to set the scene, while the pictures
themselves will tell the story with detailed captions. It should be an excellent
compliment to the largely text Donohue Biography previously written by
Argetsinger.
This event will be my final effort for a Mark Donohue Reunion, so I
want to make it special for everyone involved. Many of the crew guys are like
many of us, we aren't getting any younger and we think it is important to have
another event while everyone involved is able and willing to travel.
If you are on Facebook, you can find us there at "Mark
Donohue Reunion 2010 at Road America"
I have a few Mark
Donohue reunion posters available which is shown below. They are 22x34 and very
good quality. There were only 300 printed and only have a few left. They are
numbered, and will never be reproduced. I do accept PayPal, under the name of
PPowell6@msn.com. Email me for more details if your interested in one.
Mark Donohue Reunion 2010 at Road AmericaThis
event will be my final effort for a Mark Donohue Reunion, so I want to make it
special for everyone involved. Many of the crew guys are like many of us, we
aren't getting any younger and we think it is important to have another event
while everyone involved is able and willing to travel.
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