Mark Knopfler honors Mark Donohue

[Tireman]

Pretty cool.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2010/04/post.html

Viz

[lz2lps]

A new song by Knopfler captures the essence of Donohue’s life in a way described as "amazingly intuitive" by one of Donohue’s sons.

"The Car was The One" is the seventh track on Knopfler’s latest release, an album titled "Get Lucky.

For my father, the car was the one," said David Donohue, a race car driver whose Brumos Porsche team won the "24 Hours at Daytona" last year, 40 years after his father won on the same track. "The car was the one, racing was the one, winning meant everything.

Mark Knopfler - The Car Was The One (''Get Lucky'' 2009)

[tom goodhart]

Another great Mark Knopfler song is "Speedway at Nazareth" from Sailing to Philadelphia