1974 IROC Race #4 - Daytona
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- The first season of IROC ended on Friday February 15th, two days before the 1974 Daytona 500. Six drivers were eliminated after the third race, leaving Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, David Pearson, George Follmer, Bobby Unser, and A.J. Foyt to fight for the championship in a winner-take-all finale.
Mark Donohue announced his retirement from racing after the third IROC race in October 1973, this race at Daytona was supposed to be his last as a driver before taking the role as President of Team Penske. - Sport
They didn't show it during the broadcast, but David Pearson lost third gear in his car and twice skipped the infield section trying to catch up. "If I thought these things would float, I'd probably have cut across the lake. I was so far behind it was the only way I could catch up." 😅
no wonder on racing reference shows that david finish 4th with 2 laps down
Thanks for completing the season! Your contributions to the YT archive are seriously appreciated ❤
God amongst men 👏
it's bad seeing 2 guys that would pass away not long after this race, mark passed away a year after this race in 1975, as peter revson passing away a month later after this race, looking at both of them standing together, at 4:27 i don't think they were excepted to pass away sooner after this race, but at the same time, auto racing back than is a dangerous sport, and it's sad to see them go early
At last the inaugural IROC season has all it's races on CZcams. Thank you very much for uploading the missing two races!
I waited for this race since the Revson documentary. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your request that got this reuploaded!!
@@TheTotallyRealXiJinping I appreciate it, but I think nascarman did the work while I asked him. He’s the guy you should thank :D
What a great series….id give a kidney for one of those cars!
Thanks for the upload mate! I've been imagining what the first IROC season look like for years! With the Porsches and a great roster to boot
Pretty grim reality in the words Jackie spoke of the great Mark Donahue 😢
Thanks for posting!
This brings back some fine memories.
More Gold. Thanks NASCARMAN ❤
LOVEIT! Thanks for uploading. And because of that i subscribed to your channel.
Thank You!
Need to bring back the IROC series ASAP. 😊
what was wrong with the shifts in these porches? AJ had problems, david had problems, george had problems, were there porches had problems in the past before IROC started?
this was years after Porsches success in endurance racing so I'd put it on the drivers rather than on the well proven transmissions
They were not the easiest shifting gearboxes. You were better off guiding the gear shift and matching revs rather than banging them around. They were not fragile but not rock crushers either.
These guys didn't shift gears except at the starts
Never had a problem shifting these transmissions
do you have any footage of winners episodes besides Hershel mcgriff
I just don't believe every driver had the same horsepower and torque and transmission and tires as the winner
Do another under the sheet metal
5:43
Hey nascarman can you talk about svg
Yo bruh do you have any of those old MRN radio broadcasts? If so may you please post them especially the ones of the 1973 California 500 and the 1979 Music 500 at Pocono
But he doesn’t retire and Mark Donohue dies in a F1 test session
With those winnings in today's money I could buy a single wide trailer, and live in the trailer park for a whole year. We're talking some serious earnings folks. Granted your woman leaves you.... I mean, obviously, Terry has fireworks.