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Originally Posted by winders
The 917/30 was a development of the 917/10, both of which were Porsche creations with Penske being the team with which Porsche did development work. Mark Donahue was the Penske team member that Porsche worked with most.
Also, the car was developed for and raced in the Can Am series. "Interscope" was the name of a racing team (established in 1975 with a Formula 5000 entry for Danny Ongais), not a series.
Porsche would have continued racing the car in Can Am if the SCCA had not introduced a 3 miles per U.S. gallon maximum fuel consumption rule.
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Your additions help. Yes a fellow enthusiast!!!! But I never followed that European Can am series and I forget what it was actually called, but whatever it was named, that is what I was talking about! AndYes Ongais and group were Interscope Sponsored!!!! And it evolved to running the 935 and then to a Lola T-600 for which I have some of their 1st place IMSA medallions in my house! And I love that vintage F-5000 car!
Yes the Porsche 917/30 there are two stories (one from Porsche and one from Penske). I tend because I speak English as my chosen language to buy into the Penske story version! Thus in a short reply because I do want to get in the evening commute traffic very badly in hopes of seeing home--- the Penske team when Porsche saw what they had developed and did to the car, basically Porsche decided to back them on further development and improvements, but naturally a Porsche representative had to be present to take all of the credit for the parent organization!!!!! Thus if Penske wanted the funding, who was he to dispute things while it was actually happening. Same thing like with Vasek Polak's extra 500 rpm capable valve springs!!!!!!