David Donohue

David Donohue and Darren Law's 2011 Daytona prototype at Road America

David Donohue (born January 5, 1967 in Morristown ) is an American racing driver and the son of Mark Donohue .

Career

In contrast to his father, David Donohue hardly competed in monopostor races, apart from five starts in the 1995 Indy Lights series . In 1992 he made his debut in NASCAR and for several years drove in the North American Touring Car Championship , where he became champion in 1997. He has been driving sports car races in the Grand American Road Racing Association's racing series since 2005 and is one of the fastest drivers there.

In Europe, Donohue was a works driver for ORECA at the end of the 1990s with the Chrysler Viper GTS-R in the FIA GT championship and at the Le Mans 24-hour race .

Donohue won the Daytona 24 Hours in 2009 , 40 years after his father won the endurance race as partner of Chuck Parsons on a Lola T70 . The victory of David Donohue, Antonio García , Darren Law and Buddy Rice went down as the closest finish in a 24-hour race in motor sport history. At the finish, Donohue, who drove a Riley Porsche, had 0.167 seconds ahead of another Daytona prototype, driven by Juan Pablo Montoya , among others . The finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1966 was probably even closer when the Ford team management deliberately caused a dead race for the two leading Ford GT40s . However, there was no electronic timekeeping at that time and the distance was determined later by the ACO .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Justin Bell	Luca Drudi	11th place and class win
1999	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Soheil Ayari	Jean-Philippe Belloc	failure	Engine failure
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Ni Amorim	Anthony Beltoise	Rank 9
2002	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz LMP01 Evo	Bill Auberlen	Gunnar Jeannette	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1993	Ed Arnold Racing	BMW M5	Dieter Quester	Chris Hodgetts	Rank 20
1995	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3	Pete Halsmer		Rank 27
1996	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3	Javier Quiros		failure	suspension
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Dodge Viper GTS-R	Tommy Archer	Marc Duez	Rank 8
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP01	Bryan Herta	Bill Auberlen	Rank 8

Web links

Commons : David Donohue  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Donohue at Racing Sports Cars