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Men, not boy's..

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

That looks like a very, very early IROC lineup to me.

Riverside, 1973 or 1974. Donohue would be killed in an F1 crash in the summer of 1974, so it has to be before then.

I'll assume they drove Porsche's, which they did for the first couple of years.

Wow! I'm impressed. What about 70 hit's? They switched the next year to Camaro's, the Porche's were just to expensive for one thing. http://www.iroczone.com/history.asp I was there (Riverside) in 63 for a Grand National race, and some of these same drivers were there, including some the open wheel guy's.

The inaugural International Race of Champions was held at two tracks over two weekends in 1973 and 1974. The first three races were held October 27th and 28th at Riverside International Raceway and the final race was held on the Daytona International Speedway road course on February 14, 1974. Champion Mark Donohue won $54000 for his efforts and the championship was determined by prize money rather than points. The races were contested in Porsche Carrera RSR race cars. This was the only IROC to be contested entirely on road courses. Only the top 6 finishing drivers competed in all four races.

The roster of drivers and final points standings were as follows: ^[1]

Position	Driver	Winnings	Series
1	Mark Donohue	$54,000	SCCA Can-Am
2	Peter Revson	$21,200	SCCA Can-Am
3	Bobby Unser	$19,100	USAC Champ Car
4	David Pearson	$14,600	NASCAR Winston Cup
5	George Follmer	$16,000	SCCA Can-Am
6	A.J. Foyt	$9,900	USAC Champ Car
7	Emerson Fittipaldi	$8,300	Formula 1
8	Denis Hulme	$6,000	Formula 1
9	Bobby Allison	$5,400	NASCAR Winston Cup
10	Richard Petty	$5,400	NASCAR Winston Cup
11	Gordon Johncock	$5,100	USAC Champ Car
11	Roger McCluskey	$5,000	USAC Champ Car

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

Emmo and Hulme are what gives it away. This was back in the days when F1 actually raced here and people cared.

I saw the CanAm series race in Portland around this time (74 or 75). A completely insane amalgamation of equipment!

Even the effete road racer guys were men of steel in those days, even playboys like Revson and Follmer.

God, I'd forgotten: It was Revson that was killed in March 1974 in South Africa, before Donohue was lost in 1975.

Those 70's Can-Am cars were the BADDEST! Oh to go back in time............

SUPPORT WILDLIFE, go to a sprint car race! 

Denny Hulme would die at the wheel of a JPS BMW at the famed Bathurst 1000 after a heart attack at the wheel on Conrod Straight