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1931 - 2018. Dan Gurney successfully competed in nearly every discipline of motor racing, becoming a road racing star in America and a popular Formula One driver. Gurney was born in 1931 in Port Jefferson, New York. He began racing professionally in 1957 and gained the attention of famed Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti who arranged for Gurney ...
Jan 25, 2018 · Dan Gurney, one of the most versatile and successful auto racers in U.S. history, who won championships around the world, inaugurated the tradition of spraying champagne after a victory and ...
Jan 14, 2018 · Daniel Sexton Gurney, 1931–2018. A very worldly and interesting in-between. “Motor racing has been very kind to me,” wrote Dan Gurney for the New York Times sports pages in 1975. “It has ...
Dan Gurney was one of motorsport's greatest innovators and free-thinking spirits, as well as a world-class driver who survived and excelled in one of racing's most deadly eras. David Malsher Jan ...
Jan 15, 2018 · Dan Gurney was the first driver to score victories in each of the Formula One, IndyCar and NASCAR Cup series. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
Dan Gurney drove his first race at California's old Torrey Pines circuit in 1955, and within four years was sitting in a factory Ferrari at the French Grand Prix. Two years later he stood alongside Phil Hill on the rostrum at Monza as Hill became American's first World Champion. Even though he won more Grand Prixs, four than any other American ...
Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967) (the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya ). In 1967, after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with A.J. Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the podium.
