Chapter 8, Page 234 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 20: McLaren M16 (USAC) Winning Indianapolis (After a Lot of Setbacks). This chapter is dated 1971-1972. Here, the author gives more insight into how this really works. Roger Penske takes Mark to Europe to find a car for the next season's racing. They discuss what to do in the event that they cannot find a good enough car to win the Can-Am races. Mark suggests that they check for an alternative in cars that they can run in the USAC races—this includes Indianapolis. Mark Donohue has a strong, positive instinctive reaction to a new car that the McLaren people have made to try at Indianapolis, where they are underdogs without much experience. Roger buys the car so that Mark can drive it at Indianapolis.

Now and then, the author writes about how their activities with the cars...