Penske decided to send a two-car Sunoco Camaro team to Sebring for the 12 Hour endurance race. Despite being declared illegal the previous year, The Lightweight was back, now disguised as a 1968 ...
What a loss to motorsports Mark Donohue’s death at age 38 was: He gave team owner Roger Penske his first Indianapolis 500 win, Penske’s first NASCAR win, and he drove for Penske in Formula 1.
People were riveted by Roger Penske's deep blue Sunoco Camaros driven by Mark Donohue in the 1968 and '69 Trans-Am ... Camaros were so dominant. The 1969 Camaro you see above above pays tribute ...
They quickly found success in SCCA's Trans-Am Series, with Donohue piloting an early Camaro Z/28 racecar, winning three of 12 races in 1967 and 10 of 13 in 1968. Penske tackled the Indy 500 for ...
In 1968, Mark Donohue and Roger Penske won a championship in the middle of the golden age of Trans-Am racing with a very special Chevrolet Camaro. That car was the "Lightweight" Z/28 — a car dipped in ...