Watch this video highlighting the racing career of Dan Gurney:
Foyt, plus the 1960 Nurburgring 1,000 kilometers with Stirling Moss.īut he also won at home, claiming seven United States Auto Club-sanctioned National Championship (Indy car) events in the late 1960s five out of the six grueling 500-mile NASCAR stock races held over the Riverside, California, road course between 19 numerous events in the SCCA Can-Am and Trans-Am series and even the first professional road racing series ever conducted in the United States, the inaugural USAC Road Racing championship in 1958. He was 86.Ī tall, handsome, larger-than-life American who raced in Europe during the late 1950s and 1960s at a time when the American public was generally not following European racing anywhere close to the extent it later would, Gurney enjoyed considerable success overseas, including winning four Formula One grand prix events and sharing the winning car in the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours with A.J. Dan Gurney, one of America’s true auto racing heroes, died Sunday, in Southern California following complications with pneumonia.
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