David Donohue

2011 Rolex Sports Car

David Donohue (born January 5, 1967 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American race car driver currently active in the Grand-Am's Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class for Action Express.

Career

The son of racing legend Mark Donohue, David Donohue has accomplished much in a wide variety of auto racing series and classes, including NASCAR's Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series, as well as winning the GT2 class at the 1998 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Almost exactly 40 years after his father won the 24 Hours of Daytona, David won the 2009 event driving a Brumos-entered Riley-Porsche teamed with Antonio García, Darren Law and Buddy Rice. After starting the race from pole position, Donohue's 0.167-second margin of victory over Juan Pablo Montoya was the closest in the race's history by over a minute, and the closest finish in the history of major international 24-hour motorsports events.^[1][2] In 2013, David Donohue drove in the first GX class race at the 24 hour of Daytona. His car, the #16 Napleton Porsche Cayman S, won by a 9 lap lead.

Motorsports career results

North American Touring Car Championship

(key)

North American Touring Car Championship results
Year	Team	No.	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	NATCC	Pts
1996	PacWest Racing	8	Dodge Stratus	LRP 1	LRP 2	DET 2	DET 4	PIR 2	PIR 4	TOR 3	TOR 4	TRV 7	TRV 8	MOH 2	MOH 6	VAN 4	VAN 2	LS 5	LS 4			3rd	221
1997				LBH 4	LBH 4	SAV 2	SAV 3	DET 1^*	DET 5	PIR 1^*	PIR 7^*	CLE 1	CLE 3	TOR 4	TOR 4	MOH 1	MOH 1	VAN 2	VAN 5	LS 3	LS 3	1st	304

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	Viper Team Oreca	Justin Bell Luca Drudi	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	317	11th	1st
1999	Viper Team Oreca	Jean-Philippe Belloc Soheil Ayari	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	271	DNF	DNF
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Ni Amorim Anthony Beltoise	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	328	9th	2nd
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Bill Auberlen Gunnar Jeannette	Panoz LMP01 Evo	LMP900	230	DNF	DNF

References

1. "2009 Rolex 24 Becomes Closest in History of International 24-Hour Motorsports Races". grand-am.com. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
2. "Report: Daytona 24 Hours". Autosport. Vol. 195 no. 5. 29 January 2009. pp. 56–59.

External links

• David Donohue driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Grand-Am biographical sketch and career highlights