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WH ITBY FR EE PRESS, THUR SDAY, JUNE 7, 1973, PAGE 7 MOTOR1NG. with Mike Burgess MARK DONO HUE ODDS-ON FAVOU RITE Unquestionably, Mark Donohue's new Super Porsche is the odds-on favourite to cross the finish line first in next Sunday's (lune 10) Labatt's Blue Can-Ajui at Mosport. Donohue, probably the world'"s most versatile racing driver -engineer, will debut the new car at Friday's first practice and quaiifying session. The turbocharged Por- sche is an advanced design, based on the car Donohue helped develop iast year and which, in the hands of George Foîlmer, easily won the Can-Am titie. In secret tests this spring, the new car, which is longer and slightly wider and sports a pair of large stabilizing f ins, bas been considerably faster on the st- raights than Donohue's previous car. But the true capabilities will ot be known until it is actually tested under race conditions at Mosport. Many feel it will prove to be the fastest road racing machine in the worid. Donohue, who perfected the turbocharger for use on road racing cars, will have over I1,200 horsepower to cali on at Mosport. Donohue, as always unassuming, doesn't go along with everyone predicting that the new Porsche 917-10s will blast everything else off the track. He is inclined to believe the Porsche 91 7-10s he and Foilmer drove last year will have an edge in the early races because they are proven designs and, he adds, "they are damn good cars." Racing the cars and preparing them to race is Dono hix's whole life. He almost lives at the Roger Penske Racing Headquarters in Newtown Squarç, P.A., averaging about 13 hours a day in the garage when he isn't racing or testing. The 1972 Indy 500 winner bas a Bachelor of Science degree fromn Brown University where, in 1959, he majored in the then-new study of pollution control. At 36, he has trouble counting ail the major races and championships he has won. No racing driver in the worid can match his record in the wide variety of cars he has driven. iu USAC Championship (Indy) cars, he won the first Pocono 500 and the first Michigan 200. He was Trans-Arn sedian champion in 1968, 69 and '71, finishing second in the series in 1972. In 1967 and '68. he was United States Road Racing champion and four times bas placed better titan fourth in the Can-Am standings. He won the 24-Hours of Daytona in 1969, and, earlier this year, won a NASCAR stock car race, The Win- ston 500, in an AMC Matador. Somnewhere in between ail the racing, testing, and GEORG FOLIM*I-,R '1'oi.mer will drive Porsche 91.7-1.0 in. GEORE FOLMEP1973 Labat's Bl>Aue(an-Arn a1 Mosport. ... is a rneaningful four-letter word. If you 'care' for the sick and hungry of the world, send your dollars to ... Oti "&We could use 365 days to get ready," he says. "The- res neyer enough time. Neyer. There's always more deveiopment work to do; always somnething that doesn't get doue by the time we have to load the cars on the van." Donohue narrowly missed winniug last year's Labatt's Blue Can-Am. He led from the start and had left the Team McLaren cars of Denny Hulme and Peter Revson far back when a sticky valve on a turbocharger forced him to make a lengthy pit stop. He returned to the race three laps behind and, even then, almost cauglht eventual winner Hulme. This year, you eau bet Donohue will make sure al the turbocharger valves are weil-oiled. Tilt uext week, Happy Motoring. l'e FRINDLY FLEA MARKET 1 NVObuy end »Il anythin" 23 irs- ST. WEST 7M703 &IOWÂR Jou nson 576-6341 AIONDAY MITE-AU YOU CAN EATI Fiàsh Fry $1.79 OO 1390 AJAX *LOCAL NEWS laPlus the finest in COUNTRY SPO...RTS PERSON TO PERSON k«'COMMUNITY RADIO CHOO 13 90