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Available Fall 2000
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Unfair Advantage
New Edition
by Mark Donohue
with Paul Van Valkenburgh
Retail Price: $24.95
Bentley Stock No: GDDS
ISBN: 0-8376-0069-3
325 pages, 97 photos
Softcover 6-1/8" x 9-1/4"
Special Edition Hardcover
Retail Price: $49.95
Bentley Stock No: GDDO
ISBN: 0-8376-0073-1
In 1974 Mark Donohue took a year off from driving at the height of
his racing career and wrote a candid and revealing book about his
journey through the world of auto racing – from amateur races in
his own ’57 Corvette to winning the Indy 500 in Roger Penske’s
McLaren M16.
Now, 25 years after its original publication, the Donohue sons and
Bentley Publishers are working together to release a new edition of
The Unfair Advantage. The new edition includes 32 pages of
color photographs, a new preface written by sons Michael & David
Donohue, an illustrated chronology, and personal reflections on
Donohue’s career by friends and colleagues including Roger
Penske, Sam Posey, and life-long friend Dave Lawton.
The fastest qualifiers and their chief mechanics for the 1972
Indianapolis 500. From right to left: driver Bobby Unser and chief
mechanic Wayne Leary with Unser’s Olsonite Eagle; driver Peter
Revson and chief mechanic “Hughie” Absalom with Revson’s
Gulf McLaren; driver Mark Donohue and chief mechanic Karl
Kainhofer with Donohue’s Sunoco McLaren. From his third place
starting position, Donohue wen on to win the ‘72 Indy 500.
“The best auto racing biography ever.”
-Autoweek
The Unfair Advantage captures a uniquely American blend of
intellect and scrappiness. A graduate in engineering from Brown
University, Donohue integrated creativity, openness to new ideas,
humor, and his persistent will to win into every part of his
approach to racing.
When Donohue puts that formula into words in The Unfair
Advantage the result is a captivating view into the man, his
methodical approach to racing, and the machines he drove to
victory. As such, it has had wide reaching and particularly personal
impact for almost 30 years in the world of motorsport participants
and enthusiasts.
Mark in the Elva Formula Junior. He had one
of his earliest “run-ins” with Roger Penske in
this car when “ . . . good ol’ Roger pulled up
behind me and gave me a congratulatory
tap on the gearbox. Because it was a Volkswagen gearbox with external linkage, it
knocked me back into gear and I went
lurching into the paddock.”
Donohue driving his Javelin in the 1970
Laguna Seca Trans-Am.
About the author
Mark Donohue gained fame in the ’60s and ’70s as a maverick breed of
auto racer who used scientific and engineering skill to win his races. From
winning amateur races in his college days as a mechanical engineering student at Brown to taking the checkered flag at the 1972 Indianapolis 500,
Mark Donohue strove to understand the dynamics behind high performance, and then perfected his skill in extracting it.He also was a winning
co-driver of the 24-hour sports car enduro at Daytona, and he set a world's
speed record at Talladega.
Of course, racing has been called "the cruel sport;" Mark suffered many
losses and disappointments too, both public and private. His life ended tragically at the age of 38 after a 1975 Formula One accident in Austria. But his
legacy remains timeless. In fact, every successful driver today owes a debt
of knowledge to Mark Donohue's pioneering work in applying science to
speed.
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