Daniel Sexton Gurney (April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an
American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who
reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.
Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and
Trans-Am Series. Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won
races in Sports Cars (1958),
Formula One
Formula One (1962),
NASCAR
NASCAR (1963), and
Indy cars (1967) (the other two being
Mario Andretti
Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo
Montoya).
In 1967, after winning the
24 Hours of Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans together with A. J.
Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the
podium, which thereafter became a custom at many motorsports events.
As owner of All American Racers, he was the first to put a simple
right-angle extension on the upper trailing edge of the rear wing.
This device, called a Gurney flap, increases downforce and, if well
designed, imposes only a relatively small increase in aerodynamic
drag. At the
1968 German Grand Prix
1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to
use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing.[1]
Contents
1 Early life
2
Formula One
Formula One career
2.1 Driver
2.2 Manufacturer
2.3 Legacy
3 American Championship Car
4
NASCAR
NASCAR / SCCA Trans-Am career
5 Full-time team owner
6 Death
7 Racing record
7.1 Complete
Formula One
Formula One World Championship results
7.2 Non-Championship results
7.3
NASCAR
NASCAR results
7.3.1 Grand National Series
7.3.2 Winston Cup Series
7.3.2.1 Daytona 500
7.4 Indy 500 results
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Early life[edit]
Dan Gurney
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Dan Gurney was born to Jack Gurney and Roma Sexton.[2] His father,
John R. "Jack" Gurney, was a graduate of Harvard Business school with
a master's degree. Dan's three uncles were each MIT engineers. His
grandfather was F.W. Gurney who was responsible for the invention of
the Gurney Ball Bearing. He had one sister, Celisssa.[3] Jack was
discovered to have a beautiful voice after taking voice lessons in
Paris
Paris and changed his career path to became lead basso with the
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera Company in New York,[4] eventually retiring in
1947. Jack moved his family to
Riverside, California
Riverside, California when Dan was a
teenager and had just graduated from Manhasset High School.[4][5][6]
After moving to California, young Dan quickly became caught up in the
California hot rod culture. At age 19, he built and raced a car that
went 138 miles per hour (mph) (222 kilometres per hour [km/h]) at the
Bonneville Salt Flats.[4] He later studied at Menlo Junior College, a
feeder school for Stanford University.[4] He then became an amateur
drag racer and sports car racer. He served in the
United States
United States Army
for two years[2] as an artillery mechanic during the Korean War.[7]
Formula One
Formula One career[edit]
Gurney's car after his accident at the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix, which
killed a young spectator
Gurney after his accident at the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix, a defining
moment in his life
Driver[edit]
Gurney's first major break occurred in the fall of 1957, when he was
invited to test Frank Arciero's Arciero Special. It was powered by a
4.2-litre reworked Maserati engine with Ferrari running gear, and a
Sports Car Engineering Mistral body.[8] This ill-handling brute of a
car was very fast, but even top drivers like
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby and Ken
Miles had found it difficult to handle. He finished second in the
inaugural Riverside Grand Prix (behind Shelby), beating established
stars like Masten Gregory,
Walt Hansgen and Phil Hill. This attracted
the attention of famed Ferrari North American importer Luigi Chinetti,
who arranged for a factory ride for the young driver at Le Mans in
1958. Gurney, teamed with fellow Californian Bruce Kessler, had worked
the car up to fifth overall and handed over to Kessler, who was then
caught up in an accident. This performance, and others, earned him a
test run in a works Ferrari, and his
Formula One
Formula One career began with the
team in 1959. In just four races that first year, he earned two podium
finishes, but the team's strict management style did not suit him. In
1960 he had six non-finishes in seven races behind the wheel of a
factory-prepared BRM. At the Dutch Grand Prix, at Zandvoort, a brake
system failure on the
BRM
BRM caused the most serious accident of his
career, breaking his arm, killing a young spectator and instilling in
him a longstanding distrust of engineers. The accident also caused him
to make a change in his driving style that later paid dividends: his
tendency to use his brakes more sparingly than his rivals meant that
they lasted longer, especially in endurance races. Gurney was known to
give the brake pedal a reassuring tap just before hard application —
a habit Gurney himself jokingly referred to as "the chicken-shit
school of braking."[citation needed]
Gurney was particularly noted for an exceptionally fluid driving
style. On rare occasions, as when his car fell behind with minor
mechanical troubles and he felt he had nothing to lose, he would
abandon his classic technique and adopt a more aggressive (and
riskier) style. This circumstance produced what many observers
consider the finest driving performance of his career, when a
punctured tire put him nearly two laps down halfway through the 1967
Rex Mays 300 Indycar race at Riverside, California. He produced an
inspired effort, made up the deficit and won the race with a dramatic
last-lap pass of runner-up Bobby Unser.
After rules changes came in effect in 1961, he teamed with Jo Bonnier
for the first full season of the factory
Porsche
Porsche team, scoring three
second places. He came very close to scoring a maiden victory at
Reims, France in 1961, but Gurney's reluctance to block Ferrari driver
Giancarlo Baghetti (a move Gurney regarded as dangerous and
unsportsmanlike) allowed Baghetti to pass him at the finish line for
the win. After
Porsche
Porsche introduced a better car in 1962 with an
8-cylinder engine, Gurney broke through at the French Grand Prix at
Rouen-Les-Essarts
Rouen-Les-Essarts with his first World Championship victory – the
only GP win for
Porsche
Porsche as an F1 constructor. One week later, he
repeated the success in a non-Championship F1 race in front of
Porsche's home crowd at Stuttgart's Solitude Racetrack. Due to the
high costs of racing in F1,
Porsche
Porsche did not continue after the 1962
season. While with Porsche, Gurney met a team public relations
executive named Evi Butz, and they married several years later.
Gurney was the first driver hired by Jack
Brabham
Brabham to drive with him
for the
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation.
Brabham
Brabham scored the maiden victory
for his car at the 1963 Solitude race, but Gurney took the team's
first win in a championship race, in 1964, at Rouen. In all, he earned
two wins (in 1964) and ten podiums (including five consecutive in
1965) for
Brabham
Brabham before leaving to start his own team. With his
victory in the Eagle-
Weslake at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix, Gurney
earned the distinction of being the only driver in history to score
maiden Grand Prix victories for three different manufacturers:
Porsche,
Brabham
Brabham and his own All-American Racers.
Gurney's popularity caused
Car and Driver
Car and Driver magazine to promote the idea
of him running for President of the
United States
United States in 1964. This effort
was abandoned only when it was "discovered" that Gurney was too young
to qualify as a candidate for president. The campaign is periodically
resurrected (usually every four years) by his friends and fans.[9]
Gurney developed a new kind of motorcycle called "Alligator",[10]
which featured an extremely low seat position. While Gurney did not
achieve his goal of getting the design licensed for manufacture and
sale by a major motorcycle manufacturer, the initial production run of
36 Alligator motorcycles quickly sold out, and are now prized
collectors items.
A GT40 with a Gurney Bubble
Gurney's unusual height for a race driver caused him constant problems
during his career. During the 1.5-litre era of Formula 1, Gurney's
head and shoulders extended high into the windstream compared to his
shorter competitors, giving him (he felt) an aerodynamic disadvantage
in the tiny, underpowered cars. At nearly 6'4",[citation needed]
Gurney struggled to fit into the tight
Ford GT40
Ford GT40 cockpit, so master
fabricator
Phil Remington installed a roof bubble over the driver's
seat to allow space for Gurney's helmet—now known as a "Gurney
bubble". In a fortunate error, the Italian coachbuilder that built the
body for the 1964 Le Mans class-winning closed-cockpit Cobra Daytona
GT coupe, driven by Gurney and Bob Bondurant, mistakenly made the
cockpit "greenhouse" two inches too tall — the only thing that
permitted Gurney to fit in the car comfortably.[11]
Manufacturer[edit]
An Eagle Mk1. This car is the early, four-cylinder Climax-engined T1F,
later replaced by the V12-engined T1G cars
In 1962, Gurney and
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby began dreaming of building an
American racing car to compete with the best European makes. Shelby
convinced Goodyear, who wanted to challenge Firestone's domination of
American racing at the time, to sponsor the team. Goodyear's president
Victor Holt suggested the name, "All American Racers", and the team
was formed in 1965. Gurney was not comfortable with the name at first,
fearing it sounded somewhat jingoistic, but felt compelled to agree to
his benefactor's suggestion.[citation needed]
Their initial focus was Indianapolis and Goodyear's battle with
Firestone, but Gurney's first love was road racing, especially in
Europe, and he wanted to win the
Formula One
Formula One World Championship while
driving an American Grand Prix 'Eagle'. The car has often been
characterised as a primarily British-based effort, but in recent
interviews Gurney has been very clear that the car was designed and
built by crew members based in the All-American Racers Southern
California-based facility.[citation needed] Partnered with British
engine maker Weslake, the
Formula One
Formula One effort was called "Anglo
American Racers." The
Weslake
V12 engine
V12 engine was not ready for the 1966
Grand Prix season, so the team used outdated four-cylinder 2.7-litre
Coventry-Climax engines and made their first appearance in the second
race of the year in Belgium. This was the race of the sudden
torrential downpour captured in the feature film Grand Prix, and
although Gurney completed the race in seventh place, he was
unclassified. Gurney scored the team's first Championship points three
weeks later by finishing fifth in the French Grand Prix at Reims.
The next season the team failed to finish any of the first three
races, but on June 18, 1967, Gurney took a historic victory in the
Belgian Grand Prix. Starting in the middle of the first row, Gurney
initially followed Jim Clark's Lotus and the
BRM
BRM of Jackie Stewart. A
muffed start left Gurney deep in the field at the end of the first
lap. Throughout the race, Gurney's
Weslake V-12 suffered a high-speed
misfire, but he was able to continue racing.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark encountered
problems on Lap 12 that dropped him down to ninth position. Having
moved up to second spot, Gurney set the fastest lap of the race on Lap
19. Two laps later he and his Eagle took the lead and came home over a
minute ahead of Stewart.
This win came just a week after his surprise victory with A. J. Foyt
at 24 hours of Le Mans, where Gurney spontaneously began the
now-familiar winner's tradition of spraying champagne from the
podium[citation needed] to celebrate the unexpected win against the
Ferraris and the other
Ford GT40
Ford GT40 teams. Gurney said later that he took
great satisfaction in proving wrong the critics (including some
members of the
Ford
Ford team) who predicted the two great drivers,
normally heated rivals, would break their car in an effort to show
each other up.[citation needed]
Unfortunately, the victory in Belgium was the high point for AAR as
engine problems continued to plague the Eagle. Despite the antiquated
engine tooling used by the
Weslake factory (dating from World War I),
failures rarely stemmed from the engine design itself, but more often
from unreliable peripheral systems like fuel pumps, fuel injection and
the oil delivery system. He led the
1967 German Grand Prix
1967 German Grand Prix at the
Nürburgring
Nürburgring when a driveshaft failed two laps from the end with a
42-second lead in hand. After a third-place finish in Canada that
year, the car would finish only one more race. By the end of the 1968
season, Gurney was driving a McLaren-Ford. His last
Formula One
Formula One race
was the 1970 British Grand Prix.
Legacy[edit]
Among American
Formula One
Formula One drivers, his 86 Grand Prix starts ranks
third, and his total of four GP wins is second only to Mario Andretti.
Perhaps the greatest tribute to Gurney's driving ability, however, was
paid by the father of Scottish World Champion
Jim Clark
Jim Clark when the elder
Clark took Gurney aside at his son's funeral in 1968 and confided that
he was the only driver Clark had ever feared on the track. (Horton,
1999).
The 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion (formerly the Monterey Historic
Automobile Races) was held in honor of Gurney.[12]
In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling
study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine,
Gurney was ranked the 14th best
Formula One
Formula One driver of all time.[13]
American Championship Car[edit]
Gurney in 1962 Indy 500 car during practice. Designer John Crosthwaite
working on car
While competing in Formula One, Gurney also raced each year in the
Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500 from 1962 to 1970. Gurney made his Indy début at the
wheel of a space-frame rear engined car designed by John Crosthwaite
and built by American hot-rodder Mickey Thompson[14][15][16][17][18]
Despite a misfiring engine, Gurney ran comfortably in the top 10 until
a transmission seal failed on the 92nd lap. The last 3 years, he
finished 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively. In 1969, he did not race in
Formula One, instead racing in the USAC
Championship Car
Championship Car series and
also in CanAm. He started a total of 28
Champ Car
Champ Car races, winning 7
times among his 18 top tens. In 1969, he finished 4th in total points,
despite starting only half the races of most top drivers (and would
have finished second in the season standings to champion Mario
Andretti if not for a driveshaft failure while leading comfortably
with three laps remaining in the season finale at Riverside). In 1968,
he finished 7th with only 5 starts.
NASCAR
NASCAR / SCCA Trans-Am career[edit]
Dan Gurney
Gurney's 1963
Riverside 500
Riverside 500 car.
Born
Port Jefferson, New York
Monster Energy
NASCAR
NASCAR Cup Series career
16 races run over 10 years
Best finish
77th (1962)
First race
1962 Daytona Duel 1 (Daytona)
Last race
1980
Winston Western 500
Winston Western 500 (Riverside)
First win
1963
Riverside 500
Riverside 500 (Riverside)
Last win
1968
Motor Trend 500
Motor Trend 500 (Riverside)
Wins
Top tens
Poles
5
10
3
Gurney's first career Nascar start was in 1962. In 1963, he drove a
Holman-Moody
Holman-Moody
Ford
Ford to fifth place in the Daytona 500. Gurney was nearly
unbeatable in a
NASCAR
NASCAR Grand National car at Riverside International
Raceway in California. Four of his five victories came with the famed
Wood Brothers, in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968, in cars all numbered 121
(a simple graphic addition to the team's traditional "21"). The serial
success of the Gurney/Wood Brothers combination did not sit well with
NASCAR
NASCAR officials, so in 1967 Gurney signed to drive a Mercury for Bill
Stroppe and legendary
NASCAR
NASCAR crew chief Bud Moore. However, the 1967
Motor Trend 500
Motor Trend 500 was won by Gurney's teammate, Parnelli Jones, after
Gurney retired with engine troubles. He also won the pole for the 1970
Riverside race in a Plymouth Superbird. Gurney also made numerous
appearances in
NASCAR
NASCAR
Grand American stockcars, a pony car division
that existed between 1968 and 1971, but these results may have been in
races co-sanctioned with SCCA's Trans-Am, where Dan competed regularly
for Mercury, and later Plymouth.
At about the time Gurney began making occasional appearances in stock
cars in the United States, Dan took a
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Impala to England and
entered it in several "saloon car" (sedan) races. In a race at
Silverstone in 1962, he led the local Jaguar drivers handily until a
wheel broke. When he returned with the same car for a race three
months later, the local club's technical inspectors disallowed his
entry.
Gurney and his protege
Swede Savage drove factory-sponsored, AAR built
Plymouth Barracudas in the 1970 Trans-Am Series. Cutbacks at Chrysler
forced Gurney to cut back to a one-car effort mid-season with Savage
driving. In his swan song as a driver, in October 1970 Gurney returned
for the season finale at his beloved Riverside, finishing fifth.
In 1980, Gurney came out of a 10-year retirement to help old friend
Les Richter, the president of Riverside. (Gurney's adoption of the
number that became most closely identified with his career, 48, was a
nod to Richter's NFL number.) Gurney agreed to drive a second Rod
Osterlund
Chevrolet
Chevrolet for one
NASCAR
NASCAR race as teammate to 1979 rookie of
the year Dale Earnhardt. For added publicity and supposedly as a
condition of allowing Gurney to drive in the race after a 10-year
layoff, Richter insisted that Gurney attend the racing school run by
former teammate and friend Bob Bondurant (Gurney and Bondurant had
shared the GT-class-winning Cobra Daytona coupe at Le Mans in 1964).
After Gurney's refresher session, Richter called Bondurant and asked
how Gurney had done. "He didn't need a refresher," Bondurant
reportedly told Richter. "He was faster than me then, and he still
is." Ticket sales surged upon the announcement of Gurney's return. In
a Chevy MonteCarlo painted white with blue and carrying his famed
number 48, Gurney qualified seventh and easily ran with the leaders.
Displaying his usual fluid style, Gurney raced up to second place, and
was running third when the input shaft in the transmission let go,
something Dan later said he had never seen happen before or since.
Full-time team owner[edit]
Gurney at the 2008 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona
Upon his retirement from Formula One, Gurney devoted himself full-time
to his role as car maker and team owner. He was the sole owner,
Chairman and CEO of
All American Racers
All American Racers from 1970 until his son,
Justin, assumed the title of CEO in early 2011.[19] The team won 78
races (including the Indianapolis 500, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and
the 24 Hours of Daytona) and eight championships, while Gurney's Eagle
race car customers also won three
Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500 races and three
championships.
In 1978, Gurney wrote an open memo to other race car owners with what
is now known as the "White Letter" in which Gurney called for a series
controlled more by the owners or "actual participants" than under the
USAC banner. After much debate, CART was formed with Gurney and other
owners like Roger Penske, Pat Patrick, and Bob Fletcher. CART began
its first full season of competition in March 1979 and thus the first
split in open wheel racing began.
AAR withdrew from the CART series in 1986, but enjoyed tremendous
success with
Toyota
Toyota in the IMSA GTP series, where in 1992 and 1993
Toyota
Toyota Eagles won 17 consecutive races, back-to-back Drivers' and
Manufacturers' Championships, and wins in the endurance classics of
Daytona and Sebring.
The team returned to CART as the factory
Toyota
Toyota team in 1996, but left
again after the 1999 season when Goodyear withdrew from the series and
Toyota
Toyota ended their relationship with the team. In 2000, Dan campaigned
a
Toyota
Toyota Atlantic car for his son,
Alex Gurney
Alex Gurney under the AAR banner.
In 1990, Gurney was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall
of Fame. He is also a member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of
America, the Sebring International Raceway Hall of Fame, and the West
Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame.
Death[edit]
Gurney died from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach,
California, on January 14, 2018, at the age of 86. He was survived by
his wife, Evi, and six children.[20][21]
Racing record[edit]
Complete
Formula One
Formula One World Championship results[edit]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate
fastest lap)
Year
Entrant
Chassis
Engine
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
WDC
Pts
1959
Scuderia Ferrari
Ferrari Dino 246
Ferrari 155 2.4 V6
MON
500
NED
FRA
Ret
GBR
GER
2
POR
3
ITA
4
USA
7th
13
1960
Owen Racing Organisation
BRM
BRM P48
BRM
BRM P25 2.5 L4
ARG
MON
NC
500
NED
Ret
BEL
Ret
FRA
Ret
GBR
10
POR
Ret
ITA
USA
Ret
NC
0
1961
Porsche
Porsche System Engineering
Porsche
Porsche 718
Porsche
Porsche 547/6 1.5 F4
MON
5
BEL
6
FRA
2
GBR
7
GER
7
ITA
2
USA
2
4th
21
Porsche
Porsche 787
NED
10
1962
Porsche
Porsche System Engineering
Porsche
Porsche 804
Porsche
Porsche 753 1.5 F8
NED
Ret
MON
Ret
FRA
1
GBR
9
GER
3
ITA
Ret
USA
5
RSA
5th
15
Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel
Lotus 24
BRM
BRM P56 1.5 V8
BEL
DNS
1963
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT7
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
MON
Ret
BEL
3
NED
2
FRA
5
GBR
Ret
GER
Ret
ITA
14
USA
Ret
MEX
6
RSA
2
5th
19
1964
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT7
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
MON
Ret
NED
Ret
BEL
6
FRA
1
GBR
13
GER
10
AUT
Ret
ITA
10
USA
Ret
MEX
1
6th
19
1965
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT11
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
RSA
Ret
MON
BEL
10
FRA
Ret
GBR
6
NED
3
GER
3
ITA
3
USA
2
MEX
2
4th
25
1966
Anglo American Racers
Eagle T1F
Climax FPF 2.8 L4
MON
BEL
NC
FRA
5
GBR
Ret
NED
Ret
GER
7
MEX
5
12th
4
Weslake 58 3.0 V12
ITA
Ret
USA
Ret
1967
Anglo American Racers
Eagle T1F
Climax FPF 2.8 L4
RSA
Ret
8th
13
Eagle T1G
Weslake 58 3.0 V12
MON
Ret
NED
Ret
BEL
1
FRA
Ret
GBR
Ret
GER
Ret
CAN
3
ITA
Ret
USA
Ret
MEX
Ret
1968
Anglo American Racers
Eagle T1G
Weslake 58 3.0 V12
RSA
Ret
ESP
MON
Ret
BEL
FRA
GBR
Ret
GER
9
ITA
Ret
21st
3
McLaren M7A
Ford
Ford
Cosworth DFV
Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8
CAN
Ret
USA
4
MEX
Ret
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT24
Repco 740 3.0 V8
NED
Ret
1970
Bruce McLaren
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing
McLaren M14A
Ford
Ford
Cosworth DFV
Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8
RSA
ESP
MON
BEL
NED
Ret
FRA
6
GBR
Ret
GER
AUT
ITA
CAN
USA
MEX
24th
1
Non-Championship results[edit]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics
indicate fastest lap)
Year
Entrant
Chassis
Engine
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
1960
Owen Racing Organisation
BRM
BRM P48
BRM
BRM P25 2.5 L4
GLV
Ret
INT
Ret
LOM
DNS
OUL
6
Yeoman Credit Racing
Yeoman Credit Racing Team
Cooper T51
Climax FPF 2.5 L4
SIL
7
1961
Porsche
Porsche System Engineering
Porsche
Porsche 718
Porsche
Porsche 547/6 1.5 F4
LOM
GLV
PAU
BRX
Ret
VIE
SYR
2
NAP
LON
SOL
3
KAN
DAN
MOD
3
FLG
OUL
DNA
LEW
VAL
RAN
NAT
RSA
Louise Bryden-Brown
Lotus 18
Climax FPF 1.5 L4
AIN
14
SIL
5
1962
Porsche
Porsche System Engineering
Porsche
Porsche 804
Porsche
Porsche 753 1.5 F8
CAP
BRX
LOM
LAV
GLV
PAU
AIN
INT
NAP
MAL
CLP
RMS
SOL
1
KAN
MED
DAN
OUL
MEX
DNA
RAN
NAT
1963
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT7
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
LOM
GLV
PAU
IMO
SYR
AIN
INT
DNA
ROM
SOL
KAN
DNA
MED
AUT
OUL
Ret
RAN
1964
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT7
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
DMT
NWT
SYR
AIN
Ret
INT
Ret
SOL
DNA
MED
RAN
1965
Brabham
Brabham Racing Organisation
Brabham
Brabham BT11
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8
ROC
Ret
SYR
SMT
9
INT
MED
RAN
1967
Anglo American Racers
Eagle T1G
Weslake 58 3.0 V12
ROC
1
SPC
INT
SYR
OUL
ESP
NASCAR
NASCAR results[edit]
(key) (Bold –
Pole position
Pole position awarded by qualifying time.
Italics –
Pole position
Pole position earned by points standings or practice
time. * – Most laps led.)
Grand National Series[edit]
NASCAR
NASCAR
Grand National Series
Grand National Series results
Year
Team
No.
Make
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
NGNC
Pts
1962
Holman-Moody
0
Ford
CON
AWS
DAY
4
DAY
DAY
27
CON
AWS
SVH
HBO
RCH
CLB
NWS
GPS
MBS
MAR
BGS
BRI
RCH
HCY
CON
DAR
PIF
CLT
ATL
BGS
AUG
RCH
SBO
DAY
CLB
ASH
GPS
AUG
SVH
MBS
BRI
CHT
NSV
HUN
AWS
STR
BGS
PIF
VAL
DAR
HCY
RCH
DTS
AUG
MAR
NWS
CLT
ATL
77th
472
1963
28
BIR
GGS
THS
RSD
1*
NA
-
0
DAY
5
DAY
DAY
5
PIF
AWS
HBO
ATL
HCY
BRI
AUG
RCH
GPS
SBO
BGS
MAR
NWS
CLB
THS
DAR
ODS
RCH
CLT
BIR
ATL
DAY
MBS
SVH
DTS
BGS
ASH
OBS
BRR
BRI
GPS
NSV
CLB
AWS
PIF
BGS
ONA
DAR
HCY
RCH
MAR
DTS
NWS
THS
CLT
SBO
HBO
RSD
1964
Wood Brothers Racing
121
Ford
CON
AUG
JSP
SVH
RSD
1*
DAY
NA
-
12
DAY
10
DAY
14
RCH
BRI
GPS
BGS
ATL
36
AWS
HBO
PIF
CLB
NWS
MAR
SVH
DAR
LGY
HCY
SBO
CLT
GPS
ASH
ATL
CON
NSV
CHT
BIR
VAL
PIF
DAY
ODS
OBS
BRR
ISP
GLN
LIN
BRI
NSV
MBS
AWS
DTS
ONA
CLB
BGS
STR
DAR
HCY
RCH
ODS
HBO
MAR
SVH
NWS
CLT
HAR
AUG
JAC
1965
121
RSD
1*
DAY
DAY
DAY
PIF
ASW
RCH
HBO
ATL
GPS
NWS
MAR
CLB
BRI
DAR
LGY
BGS
HCY
CLT
CCF
ASH
HAR
NSV
BIR
ATL
GPS
MBS
VAL
DAY
ODS
OBS
ISP
GLN
BRI
NSV
CCF
AWS
SMR
PIF
AUG
CLB
DTS
BLV
BGS
DAR
HCY
LIN
ODS
RCH
MAR
NWS
CLT
HBO
CAR
DTS
NA
-
1966
AUG
RSD
1*
DAY
DAY
DAY
CAR
BRI
ATL
HCY
CLB
GPS
BGS
NWS
MAR
DAR
LGY
MGR
MON
RCH
CLT
DTS
ASH
PIF
SMR
AWS
BLV
GPS
DAY
ODS
BRR
OXF
FON
ISP
BRI
SMR
NSV
ATL
CLB
AWS
BLV
BGS
DAR
HCY
RCH
HBO
MAR
NWS
CLT
CAR
NA
-
1967
Stroppe Motorsports
16
Mercury
AUG
RSD
14
DAY
DAY
DAY
AWS
BRI
GPS
BGS
ATL
CLB
HCY
NWS
MAR
SVH
RCH
DAR
BLV
LGY
CLT
ASH
MGR
SMR
BIR
CAR
GPS
MGY
DAY
TRN
OXF
FDA
ISP
BRI
SMR
NSV
ATL
BGS
CLB
SVH
DAR
HCY
RCH
BLV
HBO
MAR
NWS
CLT
CAR
AWS
NA
-
1968
Wood Brothers Racing
121
Ford
MGR
MGY
RSD
1*
DAY
BRI
RCH
ATL
HCY
GPS
CLB
NWS
MAR
AUG
AWS
DAR
BLV
LGY
CLT
ASH
MGR
SMR
BIR
CAR
GPS
DAY
ISP
OXF
FDA
TRN
BRI
SMR
NSV
ATL
CLB
BGS
AWS
SBO
LGY
DAR
HCY
RCH
BLV
HBO
MAR
NWS
AUG
CLT
CAR
JFC
NA
-
1969
Mercury
MGR
MGY
RSD
26
DAY
DAY
DAY
CAR
AUG
BRI
ATL
CLB
HCY
GPS
RCH
NWS
MAR
AWS
DAR
BLV
LGY
CLT
MGR
SMR
MCH
KPT
GPS
NCF
DAY
DOV
TPN
TRN
BLV
BRI
NSV
SMR
ATL
MCH
SBO
BGS
AWS
DAR
HCY
RCH
TAL
CLB
MAR
NWS
CLT
SVH
AUG
CAR
JFC
MGR
TWS
NA
-
1970
Petty Enterprises
42
Plymouth
RSD
6
DAY
DAY
DAY
RCH
CAR
SVH
ATL
BRI
TAL
NWS
CLB
DAR
BLV
LGY
CLT
SMR
MAR
MCH
RSD
HCY
KPT
GPS
DAY
AST
TPN
TRN
BRI
SMR
NSV
ATL
CLB
ONA
MCH
TAL
BGS
SBO
DAR
HCY
RCH
DOV
NCF
NWS
CLT
MAR
MGR
CAR
LGY
NA
-
Winston Cup Series[edit]
NASCAR
NASCAR
Winston Cup Series
Winston Cup Series results
Year
Team
No.
Make
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
NWCC
Pts
1980
Osterlund Racing
48
Chevy
RSD
28
DAY
RCH
CAR
ATL
BRI
DAR
NWS
MAR
TAL
NSV
DOV
CLT
TWS
RSD
MCH
DAY
NSV
POC
TAL
MCH
BRI
DAR
RCH
DOV
NWS
MAR
CLT
CAR
ATL
ONT
NA
-
Daytona 500[edit]
Year
Team
Manufacturer
Start
Finish
1962
Holman-Moody
Ford
7
27
1963
11
5
1964
Wood Brothers Racing
Ford
20
14
Indy 500 results[edit]
Year
Chassis
Engine
Start
Finish
1962
Thompson
Buick
8th
20th
1963
Lotus
Ford
12th
7th
1964
Lotus
Ford
6th
17th
1965
Lotus
Ford
3rd
26th
1966
Eagle
Ford
19th
27th
1967
Eagle
Ford
2nd
21st
1968
Eagle
Ford
10th
2nd
1969
Eagle
Ford
10th
2nd
1970
Eagle
Offy
11th
3rd
See also[edit]
Biography portal
Motorsport portal
Riverside International Automotive Museum
Notes[edit]
^ "
Dan Gurney
Dan Gurney –
Formula One
Formula One Gallery – Dan Gurney's All American
Racers". allamericanracers.com. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
^ a b Moore, Clayton. "Dan Gurney: All American Racer, Hero and
Legend". The Speed Journal.
^ "Celisssa Addington". geni.com.
^ a b c d Bennett, Bill (23 March 2015). "Dan Gurney: Racing's
Renaissance Man". DieCastX.
^ Vaughn, Mark (14 January 2018). "Dan Gurney: 1931-2018".
Autoweek.
^ "Dan Gurney's Biography – Dan Gurney's All American Racers".
allamericanracers.com. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
^ Biography at the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame, 2003, Retrieved
November 8, 2007
^ Aciero Special, Harold Pace and Mark R. Brinker, Vintage American
Road Racing Cars 1950–1969, pages 138–139, MotorBooks
International, ISBN 0760317836
^ Davis, Jr., David E. (May 1964). "Gurney for President Campaign".
Car and Driver. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
^ "Alligator Motorcycle – Dan Gurney's All American Racers".
allamericanracers.com. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
^ Road & Track, July 2005. On the Road: Fast friends and fast
cars. Archived May 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 – Results and Photo Gallery".
Sports Car Digest. August 16, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
^ Hanlon, Mike (2016-05-12). "The Top 50 F1 drivers of all time,
regardless of what they were driving". New Atlas. Retrieved
2017-12-23.
^
Car and Driver
Car and Driver magazine August 1962
^ Hot Rod magazine August 1962
^ Motor magazine August 1962
^
Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500 Mile Race USAC Yearbook 1962. Floyd Clymer
^ Road & Track magazine September 1962
^ "
Dan Gurney
Dan Gurney talks about the new DeltaWing". AutoWeek. Archived from
the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
^ Litsky, Frank (January 15, 2018). "Dan Gurney, Driver and Builder of
Racecars, Is Dead at 86". The New York Times.
^ Malsher, David (January 14, 2018). "Tribute to Dan Gurney,
1931-2018". Motorsport.com.
References[edit]
Eagle-eye. Dan Gurney's All American Racers.
Dan Gurney. GP Encyclopedia. The Motorsport Company.
Blinkhorn, Robert. Dan Gurney. Grand Prix Racing—The Whole Story.
David, Dennis. Dan Gurney. Grand Prix History.
Horton, Roger (1999). Remember Jim Clark. Atlas
Formula One
Formula One Journal.
The Gurney Flap.
All American Racers
All American Racers – Gurney Flap.
The Greatest 33
Gurney's Career
NASCAR
NASCAR Starts
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dan Gurney.
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Official Gurney-
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1967
Succeeded by
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Alboreto
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Ara
Attwood
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Bandini
Barilla
Barth
Benjafield
Benoist
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Bloch
Blundell
Bouchut
D. Brabham
G. Brabham
Brundle
Chaboud
Clement
Cobb
Davis
de Courcelles
Dickens
Duff
Dumfries
Duval
Étancelin
Fontés
Foyt
Frère
Gachot
Gené
González
Gregory
Guichet
Gurney
Hamilton
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Rockenfeller
Rodríguez
Rolt
Rondeau
J. Rosier
L. Rosier
Rubin
Salvadori
Sanderson
Scarfiotti
Schuppan
Sekiya
Shelby
Smith
Tandy
Trémoulet
Trintignant
Vaccarella
Veyron
Walker
Wallace
Warwick
Weidler
Whitehead
B. Whittington
D. Whittington
Winkelhock
v
t
e
Winners of the Daytona Sports Car Classic
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Daytona 2000 (1964–65)
6 Hours of Daytona (1972)
24 Hours of Daytona
24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
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Hurley Haywood
Scott Pruett
Four-time
Peter Gregg
Pedro Rodríguez
Rolf Stommelen
Bob Wollek
Three-time
João Barbosa
Derek Bell
Christian Fittipaldi
Butch Leitzinger
Juan Pablo Montoya
Brian Redman
Memo Rojas
Andy Wallace
Two-time
Max Angelelli
Mauro Baldi
Terry Borcheller
Scott Dixon
Elliott Forbes-Robinson
A. J. Foyt
Al Holbert
Jan Lammers
Ken Miles
John Paul Jr.
Lloyd Ruby
Scott Sharp
Wayne Taylor
Didier Theys
Al Unser
Al Unser Jr.
One-time
Albuquerque
Allmendinger
Amon
J. Andretti
Ma. Andretti
Ballot-Léna
Bandini
Barber
Beretta
Bergmeister
Bernhard
Boesel
Bouchut
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Boutsen
Brown
Brundle
Buckler
Collard
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Derani
Dismore
D. Donohue
M. Donohue
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Duxbury
Dyson
Elford
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Field
Fitzpatrick
Franchitti
Fréon
García
Garretson
Gentilozzi
Gordon
Graves
Gurney
Hand
Hasemi
Helmick
Henn
Herrmann
Hezemans
Hill
Hoshino
Ickx
Jelinski
Joest
D. Jones
P. J. Jones
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Kinnunen
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Krages
Larson
Lässig
Lavaggi
Law
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Luyendyk
Martin
McMurray
Mears
Merl
Millen
Moran
Moretti
Neerpasch
Negri
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O'Connell
Oliver
Ongais
Pace
Papis
C. Parsons
Paul, Sr.
Pescarolo
Pew
Pilgrim
B. Rahal
G. Rahal
Rice
Robinson
Rockenfeller
Schneider
Schrom
Siffert
Suzuki
J. Taylor
R. Taylor
Unser, Sr.
Van der Merwe
Van Overbeek
Weaver
Wendlinger
Werner
Wheldon
Wilson
v
t
e
Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring
Six-time
Tom Kristensen
Five-time
Rinaldo Capello
Four-time
Frank Biela
Allan McNish
Three-time
Hans-Joachim Stuck
Mario Andretti
Marco Werner
Two-time
Bob Akin
Geoff Brabham
Derek Daly
Pipo Derani
Andy Evans
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio II
Olivier Gendebien
Hurley Haywood
Hans Herrmann
Phil Hill
Al Holbert
Jacky Ickx
Stefan Johansson
Nicolas Lapierre
JJ Lehto
Emanuele Pirro
Brian Redman
Eric van de Poele
Johannes van Overbeek
Fermín Vélez
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Phil Walters
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Aïello
Alboreto
Baker
Baldi
Barbosa
Barbour
Behra
Bernhard
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Castellotti
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Collins
Daigh
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Dyer
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Fässler
Fitch
Fittipaldi
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Foyt
Franchitti
Frisselle
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Gartner
Gené
Giunti
Gray
Gregg
Gurney
Hall
Hawthorn
Helmick
Herbert
Heyer
Jarvis
Kaffer
Keyser
Kulok
Larrousse
Leven
Lloyd
Ludwig
Luyendyk
Lynn
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Mass
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Mendez
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Millen
Moffat
Moretti
Morton
Moss
Mullen
Müller
Nierop
O'Connell
Oliver
Pace
Panis
Parkes
Paul, Jr.
Paul, Sr.
Pescatori
Peter
Pruett
Rahal
Robinson
Rojas
Ruby
Scarfiotti
H. Sharp
S. Sharp
Siffert
Surtees
J. Taylor
R. Taylor
W. Taylor
Theys
Tréluyer
Vaccarella
Wollek
Woods
Wurz
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