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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.
Dan Gurney's All-American Racers
Official Gurney-
Weslake home page
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Mike Spence Brands Hatch Race of Champions winner 1967 Succeeded by Bruce McLaren
Preceded by Bruce McLaren Chris Amon Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1967 with: A. J. Foyt Succeeded by Pedro Rodriguez Lucien Bianchi
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Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nine-time
Tom Kristensen
Six-time
Jacky Ickx
Five-time
Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro
Four-time
Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo
Three-time
Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner
Two-time
Earl Bamber Timo Bernhard Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Romain Dumas Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz
One-time
Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bianchi 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 Hartley Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pironi Riess Rindt 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
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Winners of the Daytona Sports Car Classic
run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63)
Daytona 2000 (1964–65)
6 Hours of Daytona (1972)
24 Hours of Daytona
24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time
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 Bourdais Boutsen Brown Brundle Buckler Collard Dalziel Derani Dismore D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows 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 Kanaan Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Larson Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin McMurray Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Nielsen 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
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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
Andy Wallace
Phil Walters
One-time
Aïello Alboreto Baker Baldi Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bonnier Bourdais Gary Brabham Brown Castellotti Collard Collins Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Dumas Duval Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Heyer Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Lynn Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles 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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