Posts Tagged ‘David Donohue’

Grand-Am Series Rolex 24 at Daytona Post Race - Winning Twice Around the Clock

By Bram • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Grand American Rolex, News, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.

(Left to right) Darren Law, Buddy Rice, David Donahue and Antonio Garcia celebrate winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday. (Grand-Am Road Racing/Brian Cleary)

(Left to right) Darren Law, Buddy Rice, David Donahue and Antonio Garcia celebrate winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday. (Grand-Am Road Racing/Brian Cleary)

An Interview with:

DAVID DONOHUE
DARREN LAW
BUDDY RICE
ANTONIO GARCIA

J.J. O’MALLEY: We’ll bring up our race winners, No. 58 Brumos Racing Porsche Riley. David Donohue, Darren Law, Buddy Rice, Antonio Garcia.

David, if you could talk about your emotions taking the lead from Juan Pablo Montoya and holding him off over the final laps of the event.

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Emotional Rolex 24 Win for Brumos Team; Donohue, Porsche Deny Ganassi & Lexus Fourth Straight

By Bram • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Grand American Rolex, News, Notes, Results, Your Series. Your Driver.

David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche/Riley heads to victory in the 47th Rolex 24 Hrs at Daytona, 40 years after his father, Mark Donohue won the famed endurance classic (Grand-Am photo)

David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche/Riley heads to victory in the 47th Rolex 24 Hrs at Daytona, 40 years after his father, Mark Donohue won the famed endurance classic (Grand-Am photo)

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida – January 25 – On the 40th anniversary of his father’s victory at the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, David Donohue, of Malvern, Penn., drove a gripping last hour of the 2009 sports car classic to pass, and then hold off, former Formula 1 champion and NASCAR star Juan Pablo Montoya to score an overall win for him and his teammates Antonio Garcia (Madrid, Spain), Darren Law and Buddy Rice (both Phoenix, Ariz.) in the Brumos Porsche Riley prototype at Daytona International Speedway.

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Donohue Puts Brumos Porsche on Rolex 24 Pole

By Bram • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Grand American Rolex, News, Notes, Results

David Donohue exits his Brumos Porsche Daytona Prototype after securing pole position for the 47th Annual Rolex 24 Hour race at Daytona International Speedway (Grand-Am photo)

David Donohue exits his Brumos Porsche Daytona Prototype after securing pole position for the 47th Annual Rolex 24 Hour race at Daytona International Speedway (Grand-Am photo)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 22, 2009) - Forty years after his father won the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona (Mark Donohue with Chuck Parsons in 1969 in a Lola), David Donohue, from Malvern, Penn., put his #58 Brumos Porsche Riley on the pole by the slimmest of margins – one-thousandth of second – for Saturday’s 47th running of the Rolex 24 at DaytonaDavid Donohue edged Timo Bernhard by a scant .001 seconds Thursday to capture the pole position for the 47th Rolex 24 At Daytona, breaking the Daytona Prototype track record in the process.

Donohue turned in a lap of 1:40.540 (127.472 mph) in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche Riley he will share with Darren Law, Buddy Rice and Antonio Garcia. The race will take the green flag at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. FOX will open live network coverage at 3 p.m. Saturday. SPEED will resume coverage at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, continuing until 10 p.m. Sunday coverage on SPEED will run from 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Donohue Wins Rolex Series Pole at Laguna Seca

By Bram • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Grand American Rolex, Notes, Results

Grand-Am photo
SALINAS, Calif. - David Donohue saved his best for last Friday, running his fastest lap near the end of the session to win the pole for the RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Donohue ran a lap of 1:19.843, 100.908 mph, on his eighth of nine qualifying laps to win his second pole of the season in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 competition, driving the No. 58 Brumos Racing Porsche Riley.

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