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  1.   Christian posted:
  12.06.2003 - 12:21 am
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A Porsche year.

The last race of Mark Donohue's championship.

Mark Donohue will be missed.

R.I.P Mark Donohue 1937-1975


  2.   Christian posted:
  12.06.2003 - 12:22 am
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Correction:

The last race of Mark Donohue's championship season.


  3.   dalejrrules14 posted:
  03.04.2006 - 10:20 pm
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why what happened to him?


  4.   Miller4Prez64 posted:
  06.30.2006 - 4:50 am
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This race was ran on the Daytona Road course and they wouldnt come on
the course again until 2006 which was won by Tony Stewart


  5.   nascarman posted:
  08.23.2006 - 2:08 pm
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Mark was killed in practice for the Austrian grand prix. He walked away
from the car but then lapsed into a coma the next day.


  6.   Steve posted:
  11.10.2006 - 2:20 am
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Best IROC finish (and last IROC race) for the late Peter Revson, who is
the most recent American-born driver to win a Grand Prix.


  7.   Steve posted:
  09.07.2007 - 2:33 am
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The actual cause of Mark Donohue's death was a brain hemorrhage that was
originally thought to be a severe headache.


  8.   MegaRacer posted:
  10.12.2007 - 2:56 am
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Peter Revson was killed about a month after this race testing an F1 car
in Kyalami, South Africa.


  9.   Anonymous posted:
  11.20.2007 - 4:39 am
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Where did the other 6 drivers go?


  10.   nascarman posted:
  11.11.2008 - 5:37 pm
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Number / Driver / Color
1 / Mark Donohue / Orange
2 / Peter Revson / Aubergine
3 / David Pearson / Carmen Red
4 / George Follmer / Bright Yellow
5 / Bobby Unser / Acid Blue
6 / A.J. Foyt / Indian Red


  11.   nascarman posted:
  01.15.2015 - 1:32 pm
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This race was run Friday, February 15, 1974.
Here are the qualifying speeds. This was when they still set the
starting line-up by a qualifying session.
1. Mark Donohue 113.519
2. Peter Revson 112.658
3. David Pearson 112.656
4. George Follmer 112.592
5. Bobby Unser 112.252
6. AJ Foyt 112.178


  12.   nascarman posted:
  01.16.2015 - 10:44 am
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George Follmer completed 13 laps. AJ Foyt completed 2 laps. After the
race, all the cars were sold for $26,000 each.


  13.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.14.2020 - 12:07 am
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This was the last IROC race for the original Porsche 911 race cars.
Porsche provided the series with factory support during its original
season but quickly lost interest and dropped it. A new deal for
Chevrolet Camaros was quickly secured for the second season, with those
cars becoming much more associated with IROC in the years to come.


  14.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.14.2020 - 8:37 am
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@9 (and I hope it wasn't too suspenseful waiting 13 years for this)
IROC used a knockout format during its inaugural season. There series
invited 12 drivers and used the first three races at Riverside the prior
October with all of them as qualifying rounds. The top-6 after these
three races were then invited to take part in the final race here at
Daytona during Speedweeks. Emerson Fittipaldi, Denny Hulme, Bobby
Allison, Richard Petty, Gordon Johncock, and Roger McCluskey missed the
cut.


  15.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.11.2021 - 4:44 pm
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David Pearson was the only NASCAR driver to qualify for the IROC finals
but racing a 911 on a road course he was way out of his element. The
Silver Fox fell far enough behind that he twice skipped the infield
portion of the track entirely trying to catch back up. He later joked
that if he could have cut across Lake Lloyd he may have tried it. The
shortcuts didn't do him much good, he finished a distant fourth two laps
down anyway.


  16.   MSportRev posted:
  04.01.2021 - 6:04 pm
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Attendance: 30,000

Source: Ultimate Racing History


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