Penske Racing

the Cars

the Team

Penske Racing

Porsche cars had been racing in Can-Am from the beginning. Mainly driven by Jo Siffert driving Porsche factory cars and Milt Minter driving for Vasek Polak. But it wasn't until Porsche asked Penske Racing to race their cars that they experienced big-time success. This was 1972. They won in 1972 with George Follmer taking the championship and in 1973 with Mark Donohue taking the championship. Then they quit. For the 1974 series fuel consumption minimums were put into effect (minimum of 3 miles-per-gallon) and Porsche and many other factory teams didn't want to make the effort to meet these fuel requirements.

For more information about Porsche and Can-Am head over to Michael Stucker's page on the history of Can-Am and the Porsches.

Web Sites To Visit:

• Penske Racing: The official web site of Penske Racing. This is their history page. Not much here. Apparently history is not a big thing with Roger Penske.
• VPRacing.com: I know they sell posters and they have a great tribut to Vasek Polak and they are Porsche guys to the core. Just explore.
• A short bio about George Follmer can be found here.

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