September 10, 2009

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 10, 2009) – In 1969, Roger Penske, Mark Donohue and Ronnie Bucknum teamed up to bring home the SCCA Trans-Am Championship for Chevrolet. They drove 1969 Camaros that year, with the dark blue cars sponsored by Sunoco. This year, exactly 40 years after that championship season, another pair of drivers named Donohue and Bucknum will once again race in a Camaro wearing Sunoco blue colors.

David Donohue is the son of Mark Donohue. Jeff Bucknum is the son of Ronnie Bucknum. Both sons have well established credentials in the world of racing and, at the Oct. 4 final round of the 2009 Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge season, they will join forces at the wheel of a brand new Camaro, built by Riley Technologies of Mooresville, N.C.

With a paint scheme created by ESBG Designs, the new Camaro will look very much like the 1969 model, which is as Chevrolet intended with the introduction of their new street version of the car.

Just as the fans will be excited to see the new Sunoco Camaro on track, Jeff Bucknum is already excited to be involved with this project, as well as being with David Donohue, team manager Mike Johnson and the whole Stevenson Motorsports organization.

“I am so excited to be a part of a program that brings so much history together in today’s sports car racing,” Bucknum said. “I have enjoyed working on setting up this program not only for personal reasons but also for the chance to get to know David Donohue. Although David and I have raced in the same circles for many years, and knew of each other, we never got to know each other. I now can say David is one of the true genuine nice guys in the racing industry and it’s been my pleasure to work with him on getting this program going.

“To finally get the chance to have this program come together to race with David as my teammate is awesome. I really want to thank Johnny Stevenson and Mike Johnson for keeping the faith on getting this program off the ground as we have all been working on this for a long time!”

Johnson is the team manager for the No. 57 Stevenson Pontiac GXP.R that races in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT class. Johnson will head up the KONI effort as well, with the same professional crew members working with him to get the most out of the new Riley chassis.

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