 The team also contested some of the more prestigious races in the USAC championship that year, as they would do in subsequent years.For 1971 they had a new car, the M16, which driver Mark Donohue said "...obsoleted every other car on track..." At that year's Indianapolis 500, Revson qualified on pole and finished second, whilst in 1972, Donohue won in privateer Team Penske's M16B.The 1973 event had Johnny Rutherford join the team; he qualified on pole, but finished ninth, Revson crashed out.