Chapter 12, Page 280 Summary and Analysis

Porsche 917-10, 917-30 A Monument to Effort (Wisdom and Tragedy). This is dated 1972-1973. In this chapter, Mark travels to Germany with Roger Penske. He is shocked when there is alcohol offered to them with a meal. He explains that the GM people would never do that, and would get upset if anyone even tried it. In this case, Roger is the least impressed of the bunch. Dononhue and his colleague Cox talk much of the night about what a great opportunity this is and what can be done with it.

There is a man named Flegl in Germany who has an important role in introducing Mark Donohue to how they go about doing things in Europe. They do not realize that the Americans are used to having engineers drive the race cars, and that because of it, the...