Mark Donohue

This is the subject of the book. He is a 20th century race car driver. He discovers that he is a race car driver during his undergraduate years. The book describes the full length of his career. The details about what he is like are revealed gradually during the book,and some photographs of him are included in the book.

Dan Gurney

This is one of the men listed as being amongst the best race car drivers known to the author. Early on in his professional career, Mark Donohue is thrilled with himself when he is able to perform anywhere nearly as well as Dan Gurney. Dan is mentioned beginning close to chapter 8 and continues to come up.

Later in the book, he has moved into a position where he is making cars and the Penske team is able to buy a car from Dan Gurney.

Dan...