Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
A short time after we went to press last month, it was announced that a new American Formula One team was soon going to be announced. Yawn. Sorry, it’s not that I’m not—yawn—excited by the prospect, it’s just how many times have we heard this over the past…oh, I don’t...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone can do anything, if they work hard and put their mind to it. For American road racing enthusiasts, there is a racing equivalent of the American Dream, but for the...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
Last Wednesday afternoon All American Races CEO Justin Gurney hosted an 85th birthday party for his father, AAR Founder Dan...
Toyota-Eagle GTP MkIII I truly believe a good car does not have to do only with good performances, but also its opportunities to be right on the money, even if you go sometimes a little away from the good changes. Of course, the big secret to any good car is...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to drive...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA Sprint Car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
Dan Gurney has been selected as the next recipient of the Peter Bryant Challenger Award for engineering excellence for his...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called “The Eagles Have Landed.” The exhibit in the museum’s Charles Nearburg Family Gallery will showcase the diversity of the various racing cars constructed by Gurney’s All American Racers in nearby...
The RM group of companies, RM Sotheby’s and Auctions America, will handle the sale of 49 vehicles from the Riverside...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
Goodwood’s 76th Members’ Meeting, set for March 17-18, 2018, will offer a pair of new races, named for American racing icon Dan Gurney and eminent British motoring journalist John Bolster, Autosport magazine’s founding technical editor. The Gurney Cup is intended to highlight the diversity evident in Gurney’s career, and will...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as a shock, and one of those was the news that David Loring had died in mid-September at the age of 62. Although he had endured and survived previous internal ailments,...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build a simple, small displacement racecar—like a Formula Ford—and his prototype’s success would catapult that individual into becoming a major racing car manufacturer, eventually reaching the pinnacles of the sport, F1...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
Two black and gold Indycars campaigned by the legendary Smokey Yunick will be crossing the auction block this coming January...
Forty-eight years ago, Dan Gurney qualified his All American Racers Eagle-Ford in the middle of the front row for the 1967 Indianapolis 500, then managed to lead that race briefly before being sidelined by an engine problem. Later that year the car (chassis 212) was sold to A.J. Foyt who...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. The record that helped Gurney garner the award should be well known to most, but to capsulize let’s just say he started 312 races in...
