David Donohue

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

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

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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	PacWest Racing	8	Dodge Stratus	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
Source:^[3]

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
Sources:^[4]^[5]

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Donohue continues to race in the annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado.


Year	Car	Class	Time	Class pos.	Overall pos.
2017	2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	9:49.954^[6]	2nd	6th
2018	2017 Porsche GT3 R	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	9:37.152^[7]	1st	6th
2019	2016 Porsche 911	Pikes Peak Open	9:33.404^[8]	2nd	4th
2020	2019 Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	DNF^[9]	9th	43rd
2021	2019 Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	6:45.893^[10]^{[note 1]}	3rd	8th
2022	2019 Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	10:35.830^[12]	1st	3rd
2023	2019 Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	9:18.053^[13]	1st	4th
2024	2014 Porsche 911 Turbo R	Time Attack-Time Attack 1	9:49.429^[14]	1st	7th

^ The distance raced in the 2021 event was shortened due to inclement weather. The lap was completed at Devil's Playground.^[11]

References

^ "2009 Rolex 24 Becomes Closest in History of International 24-Hour Motorsports Races". grand-am.com. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
^ "Report: Daytona 24 Hours". Autosport. Vol. 195, no. 5. 29 January 2009. pp. 56–59.
^ "David Donohue race results". TouringCars.net. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
^ "David Donohue Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
^ "David Donohue". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
^ "PPIHC 2017 results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
^ "PPIHC 2018 results" (PDF).
^ "PPIHC 2019 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-02.
^ "PPIHC 2020 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-16.
^ "PPIHC 2021 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-28.
^ "2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Official Results". 28 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-29.
^ "PPIHC 2022 Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 26, 2022. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
^ "PPIHC 2023 Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 25, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
^ "2024 PPIHC Overall Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 23, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.

External links

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

Sporting positions
Preceded by Randy Pobst	North American Touring Car Championship Champion 1997	Succeeded by Final

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[fn1-12] The distance raced in the 2021 event was shortened due to inclement weather. The lap was completed at Devil's Playground.^[11]

[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.

[3] "David Donohue race results". TouringCars.net. Retrieved August 11, 2023.

[MSportStats-4] "David Donohue Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved August 11, 2023.

[5] "David Donohue". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved August 11, 2023.

[6] "PPIHC 2017 results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2018-06-28.

[7] "PPIHC 2018 results" (PDF).

[8] "PPIHC 2019 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-02.

[9] "PPIHC 2020 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-16.

[10] "PPIHC 2021 results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-28.

[11] "2021 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Official Results". 28 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-29.

[13] "PPIHC 2022 Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 26, 2022. Retrieved November 5, 2022.

[14] "PPIHC 2023 Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 25, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2023.

[15] "2024 PPIHC Overall Results" (PDF). PPIHC.org. June 23, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.

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