Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
In this final installment of Casey Annis’ interview with Dan Gurney, Dan discusses his “second” career as a constructor and...
American racing legend (and all-around nice guy) Dan Gurney was recently honored during the Wine Country Classic vintage race weekend May 20-21 at Sears Point Raceway. Festivities at the Northern California event included two days of vintage racing, a collection of former Gurney racecars and a display chronicling his incredible...
November 2000 Dan Gurney—The Ultimate Racer By Karl Ludvigsen Mention the name Dan Gurney and what comes to mind? The...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
Dan Gurney once tried to show me how to wring the neck of a recalcitrant racecar to squeeze out that last tenth of a second, and I blew it. The lesson, I mean. Couldn’t take in a thing… except something important about Dan Gurney. You don’t get a lot of...
If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project,...
Lyn St. James Alex Zanardi 3 F1 and sports car racer Andrea de Adamich is born (1941). 3 Two-time CART...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, doors, a windscreen, brake lights and meet various safety requirements....
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that...
The North American Racing Team: An evocative name that is steeped in history and encompasses one man’s ambitions, his passion, the glory and the despair of motor racing over a period of nearly 40 years. Masten Gregory Dan Gurney Milt Minter John Surtees Paul Newman Graham Hill Pedro Rodriguez Phil...
Jochen Rindt Richie Ginther 3 Ferdinand Porsche is born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia (1875). 3 First race at Monza, Italy, a...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was cosanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
Vic Elford Lucien Bianchi 1 Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert drive a Porsche 962 to victory in the...
The French Grand Prix, Rouen-les Essarts, July 8, 1962. An excellent close-up shot of Dan Gurney rounding Noveau Monde hairpin with his usual open-mouthed expression, taken by Louis Klemantaski from the apex of the corner with a Rollei camera. Gurney went on to win in a race full of surprises, giving...
The 1965 Le Mans ended with all six Ford GT40s retiring while 1966 brought the famous three-car finish where Ford...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use...
Racing transcends venue. I’ve done my time at grungy old bullrings, squalid street courses, insipid parking lots, sterile speedways, a forlorn airstrip whose primary enterprise seemed to be the drying of turkey manure—I’ve been to some really ugly race tracks and seen gorgeous racing regardless. Pete Lyons Yet how much...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Here’s a big four-oh for me: That many years ago this month the Can-Am began, and basically so did my...
This month’s featured site is the official Web site of Dan Gurney and his All American Racers (AAR). Formed by Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby in 1965, after their victorious year at Le Mans, AAR went on to produce 157 racecars from 1965 to 2000. During its nearly 40-year-long history...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
We raced the car with the V-12 for the first time at Brands Hatch, at the Race of Champions.I remember...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the case when Dan Gurney took a call from a travel agent in Long Beach, California, named Chris Pook. Pook wasn’t trying to sell Dan on a trip to the Caribbean;...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil...
In April 1964, a new Gran Turismo racer 40-inches high rolled out of the Ford Advanced Vehicles factory in Slough,...
August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. “It covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is...
