Mark Donohue en route to victory in the season-ending 1973 Can-Am round at Riverside. Donohue so dominated the event that he spent most of the race playing with his newly installed adjustable sway bar system! Photo: Pete Lyons – www.petelyons.com
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Mark’s Moment

Watching it happen, it was hard to appreciate the magnitude of the achievement. The big blue roadster hardly made any noise, and it was being driven with such poise, such command, that its motion around the track didn’t really rivet the eye either.

Yet, as Mark Donohue cruised his turbocharged Porsche Panzer around the final lap of his last Can-Am race at Riverside in 1973, he was climbing a summit of personal fulfillment. The legendary driver-engineer himself said that taming this immensely powerful, initially very difficult machine was “a monument to my career.”

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Steve Natale has been playing with cars ever since he was old enough to first hold a matchbox car in his hand. A lifelong enthusiast of anything old with an engine in it or wheels on it, Steve has been active in the hobby for over 35 years. Currently he owns a successful marketing company with his wife Mary, is an automotive photographer, blogger and writer for several automotive magazines and regular contributor to various automotive websites. Steve has attended vintage car events and visited car museums and collections around the world.
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