Search - The Anatomy of Auto Racing (1973)

[@Mr67Stanger]

I loved Speedvision. Couldn't wait until I got back home from work to watch all those old-school documentaries from all over the world. When it became "Speed Channel" and turned into a NASCAR channel pretty much, I lost interest. Thanks for posting this!

[@orangelion03]

Loved SpeedVision. They showed many of these older promo films, some that I had seen as a kid when they would show them at auto shows. Thanks for posting this!

[@roywinchel3620]

Loved it. The decade from 65 to 75 saw some of the greatest gains in chassis, bodies engines and tires all at once.

[@JohnJ-fj2xe]

I knew that Hulme had flipped his McLaren at Road Atlanta, but I had no idea that there was video of it. You just never know when some small clip from the past will surface.

[@193322009]

As a former race driver and also trained in psychology, I found this video to be informative and fun to watch. It might help to show new aspiring race drivers what it's truly like to race.

[@mikekorn6968]

Thanks for showing this. I have home movies ( now on DVD) & pictures of Donohue at Laguna Seca in the 917-30 in 1973. I was sitting in turn 9 & I was in the pits

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

Mike Korn Please upload your DVD of Donohue at Laguna Seca onto KZbin. Thanks.

[@robbnutter4665]

I was at Riverside for that race in 1973! They had the first IROC race that day too! I was at Turn 6 and Jackie Oliver in the UOP Shadow spun out right in front of me.

[@randydubin7118]

Another great video, as always! I read an "Autoweek" article the other day about Team Penske and Mark Donahue, and Sam Posey had a very interesting quote in that article on Donahue. Posey said that Mark was "A gunslinger that just happened to invent the gun".

[@HODIUSDUDE]

Great quote! Thanks for watching.

[@pete5534]

A terrific film, thanks for posting. Strange how such a sport enjoyed by so many cannot sustain a television channel - I’m talking Speed Channel here. I hope the reason is that folks were saving their time and money on making their cars quicker, and television was something they could no longer afford.

[@gullreefclub]

I think I watched more hours of programming on the Speed Channel than any other two channels combined until Fox killed it in favor of FS1 which I only watch when there is a race on other than that I could care less about it or FS2

[@life_of_riley88]

That Sprite looks so derpy with one headlight smashed and it's sheet metal "mouth" all banged up. Great little video though, love those Porsche 917-30's

[@extramile150]

thanks for this post!

[@HODIUSDUDE]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andyhamilton8940]

Lol! Mark said that 917-30 is a 100k car!

[@kyle381000]

It's too bad that they showed the wrong clip when discussing Donohue's testing accident. What we actually saw was Denny Hulme's accident in 1972.

[@RickyJr46]

Enjoyable, even if the Can-Am content was a little less than hoped for…

[@markconner5569]

Mark was clearly not walking or getting around to well in this video. Farnham also extremely well educated!

[@Demun1649]

Can-Am was certainly a top series, and the TOP driver was Bruce McLaren, the New Zealander who taught the US to shape up and prepare cars properly.

[@reallyluckyoaklawn8306]

@Demun1649 too bad the Britishers at March, BRM and Lola (after 1966) ignored, these lessons to when it came to design, testing and race preparation for the Can Am. I wonder if Americans Teddy Mayer and Tyler Alexander had anything to do with McLaren’s success from 1967 - 1972. ( 2 victories in 1972, 0 in 1966). I wonder if Bruce learned anything as to how a Factory not a shop, goes racing as a Shelby America driver, racing and winning in Ford MK IIs and Ford MK IVs. I wonder if McLaren’s own engine shop in Detroit had anything to do with their success. I wonder if the sponsorship or technical support from American companies Gulf Oil, Chevrolet snd Reynold Aluminum had anything to do with McLaren’s success.

[@Demun1649]

@@reallyluckyoaklawn8306 Oh, poor, sad, little Yenghi. Are you related to Henry Ford Junior? The nationalist racist who didn't consider the 1966 Le Mans victory to be a Yenghi victory, because his xenophobia stopped him seeing the cars as the winning advertising material, and not the two New Zealanders who won, despite the deliberate instructions given to them to maintain a certain lap-time, while the Yenghi drivers were told to go as fast as possible, and then Ford interfered with the tyre contract that Bruce had with Firestone, and ordered the tyres to be changed to Goodyear's, despite car #2 not being set up for the Goodyear. Ford clearly forgot, (senile like Trumpanzee, eh?), that Bruce had spent more miles testing the GT40s, of ALL types, than any other single driver. You just sulk, and remember that the only successes that Yenghi drivers had were in European cars, apart from the Chaparral. You can't help being bad engineers and mechanics, you are better at killing kids, with guns, while they are at school.

[@rolfdejonge3915]

✌️🤠💥🌟🌀👍

[@DiaboloXXXVI]

25:03.....she confuses me.....

[@jeffreyrumbold9363]

No worries about the prang, John - you're still getting laid tonight 😉 I think it's awesome to have a supportive wife when an amateur driver is trying to scale the steep ladder to motorsports success!

[@andyhamilton8940]

Penske crew chief said the Porsche had 1000hp...he left off the other 500!

[@RickyJr46]

Dave Despain misspoke by saying Mark Donohue's Road Atlanta fuel leak debacle was the last one he suffered during the season. At the seventh round, Laguna Seca in October, an engine cover split resulting in a smoky oil leak and morning heat race DNF. The retirement put him on the last row for the main event, but Donohue fought through to win the race and the series championship on 10/14/73.

[@henrymorgan3982]

Donahue. Legend.

[@purplebondsaiyan2987]

Love it!!!