The Hall of Fame Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will open “An All-American Exhibition” this Friday, May 1, featuring...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after Pole Day qualifying. In 1971 that group included Peter Revson on pole in the works McLaren-Offenhauser, Mark Donohue in the middle with Roger Penske’s Sunoco McLaren-Offenhauser, and Bobby Unser on the...
August 2010 Headed for a 2nd-place finish in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, on June 23, 1963, Dan Gurney...
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer...
August 2017 The Belgian Grand Prix; Spa-Francorchamps, June 18, 1967. Dan Gurney braking for La Source on his way to a historic win, the first (and still only) for an American driver in a car of his own construction. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
Peter Brock Alan Jones 1 Brian Redman finishes 1st and 2nd in the 24 Hours of Daytona when the Gulf...
My brother, Jim Hurtubise, started out racing on dirt tracks in California against seasoned drivers like Parnelli Jones and Allen Heath. After “Herk,” as he was known, had done all he could in the West, he worked his way back to “the bull rings” of the Midwest, the heartland of...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less than seismic impact in the motor sports world at large. As someone emailed in to SpeedTV’s “Wind Tunnel,” the only reason for many fans to bother talking about IRL’s muffled...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when...
To supplement this month’s feature story on the 1961 French Grand Prix we offer this nearly 20-minute clip in summary...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and narrow roads, ended up looking different from their American counterparts, raised on cheap fuel in more open spaces. Racing venues also differed, with sedan racing in Europe dominated by road...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius...
Dan Gurney was special guest at the 2012 Goodwood Revival, held 14-16 September at Goodwood Circuit in West Sussex, England. Daniel Sexton Gurney’s contribution to motor racing is incalculable, his tally of four World Championship Grands Prix wins and victory in the Le Mans 24 Hour race as a driver...
Goodwood’s 76th Members’ Meeting, set for March 17-18, 2018, will offer a pair of new races, named for American racing...
The 1965 Le Mans ended with all six Ford GT40s retiring while 1966 brought the famous three-car finish where Ford...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, in 1967, where he qualified 3rd but retired with suspension problems. Rice grew up about 100 miles from Watkins Glen, and was 9...
The Petersen Automotive Museum honored motorsports legend Dan Gurney with its 2016 Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award — in...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the 50th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company’s all-American triumph in the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans with drivers Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt, in addition to the regularly...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded...
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum holds several of these dinners each year to honor a different facet of automotive or racing history. In the last year or two there have been racing...
The French Grand Prix, Rouen-les Essarts, July 8, 1962. An excellent close-up shot of Dan Gurney rounding Noveau Monde hairpin with...
Twenty years after earning his second consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship, Mika Häkkinen will demonstrate his considerable driving talents behind...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put the Porsche name firmly in motor racing record books as a marque to be respected and feared. In 1970, together with Richard Attwood—some would say a most unlikely pairing—and from...