Driving the McLaren that won the 1972 Indy 500, a 1000-hp time machine - Yahoo Singapore News
I couldn’t even reach the pedals. Walter Goodwin, the man responsible for maintaining Mark Donohue’s 1972 Indy 500 winning McLaren/Offy, informed me that when Parnelli Jones finishes his session on track, he’ll lend me his race suit to use as a booster seat, given that we can’t... The 80-year-old Hall of Famer is still pounding around in vintage race cars, but more to the point, he’s letting me borrow his clothes. My hands are wrapped around the rubber-padded steering wheel. After a short while, a faded blue suit with the vague outline of “Parnelli Jones” stitched across the belt arrives and is folded tidily behind my back. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway “yellow shirts” feverishly blow their whistles at the gathering crowd, while Goodwin signals a mechanic to fire up the engine: “I’ve not started this motor in forever,” the mechanic says, but all 1,000 horses fire... I reach for the heavy clutch, engage first gear, blip the throttle and head out. Source: www.yahoo.com
