Dan Gurney

Dan Gurney
Gurney at the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix
Born	Daniel Sexton Gurney (1931-04-13)April 13, 1931 Port Jefferson, New York, U.S.
Died	January 14, 2018(2018-01-14) (aged 86) Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Spouse	Evi Butz ​ (m. 1969)​
Children	6, including BRM, Porsche, privateer Lotus, Brabham, Eagle, McLaren
Entries	87 (86 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	4
Podiums	19
Career points	133
Pole positions	3
Fastest laps	6
First entry	1959 French Grand Prix
First win	1962 French Grand Prix
Last win	1967 Belgian Grand Prix
Last entry	1970 British Grand Prix
Sonoma )
Wins Podiums Poles 7 16 10
NASCAR driver
Motor Trend 500 (Riverside )
Wins Top tens Poles 5 10 3
Shelby, Ford
Best finish	1st (1967)
Class wins	2 (1964, 1967)
Championship titles
1959 1958	12 Hours of Sebring USAC Road Racing

Daniel Sexton Gurney (April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an American

.

Born in

in Formula One.

Gurney moved to

.

Outside of Formula One, Gurney entered 10 editions of the

in 1990.

Early life

Gurney was born to John R. "Jack" Gurney and Roma Sexton.^[6] His father was a graduate of Harvard Business School with a master's degree. Dan's three uncles were each MIT engineers. His grandfather was F.W. Gurney who was responsible for the invention of the Gurney Ball Bearing. He had one sister, Celisssa.^[7] Jack was discovered to have a beautiful voice after taking voice lessons in Paris and changed his career path to become lead basso with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York,^[8] eventually retiring in 1947. Jack moved his family to Riverside, California, when Dan was a teenager and had just graduated from Manhasset High School.^[8][9][10] Young Dan quickly became caught up in the California hot rod culture. At age 19, he built and raced a car that went 138 miles per hour (mph) (222 kilometres per hour [km/h]) at the Bonneville Salt Flats.^[8] He later studied at Menlo Junior College, a feeder school for Stanford University.^[8] He then became an amateur drag racer and sports car racer. He served in the United States Army for two years^[6] as an artillery mechanic during the Korean War.^[11]

Gurney's first major break occurred in the fall of 1957 when he was invited to test Frank Arciero's Arciero Special. It was powered by a 4.2-litre reworked Maserati engine with Ferrari running gear, and a Sports Car Engineering Mistral body.^[12] This ill-handling brute of a car was very fast, but even top drivers like Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles had found it difficult to handle. He finished second in the inaugural Riverside Grand Prix (behind Shelby), beating established stars like Masten Gregory, Walt Hansgen and Phil Hill. This attracted the attention of famed Ferrari North American importer Luigi Chinetti, who arranged for a factory ride for the young driver at Le Mans in 1958. Gurney, teamed with fellow Californian Bruce Kessler, had worked the car up to fifth overall and handed over to Kessler, who was then caught up in an accident. This performance and others earned him a test run in a works Ferrari, and his Formula One career began with the team in 1959. In just four races that first year, he earned two podium finishes, but the team's strict management style did not suit him. In 1960 he had six non-finishes in seven races behind the wheel of a factory-prepared

. At the Dutch Grand Prix, at Zandvoort, a brake system failure on the BRM caused the most serious accident of his career, breaking his arm, killing a young spectator and instilling in him a longstanding distrust of engineers. The accident also caused him to make a change in his driving style that later paid dividends: his tendency to use his brakes more sparingly than his rivals meant that they lasted longer, especially in endurance races.

After rules changes came in effect in

did not continue after the 1962 season. While with Porsche, Gurney met a team public relations executive named Evi Butz, and they married several years later.

Gurney was the first driver hired by Jack Brabham to drive with him for the Brabham Racing Organisation. Brabham scored the maiden victory for his car at the 1963 Solitude race, but Gurney took the team's first win in a championship race in 1964 at Rouen. In all, he earned two wins (in 1964) and ten podiums (including five consecutive in 1965) for Brabham before leaving to start his own team. With his victory in the Eagle-Weslake at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix,^[14] Gurney earned a distinction as the only driver in history to score maiden Grand Prix victories for three different manufacturers: Porsche, Brabham and Anglo-American Racers.

Due to his popularity, Car and Driver magazine promoted the idea that Gurney run for President of the United States in 1964.^[15] This effort was abandoned only when it was "discovered" that he was too young to qualify as a candidate. The campaign was periodically resurrected (usually every four years) by his friends and fans.^[16]

Gurney developed a new kind of motorcycle called "Alligator",^[17] which featured an extremely low seat position. While Gurney did not achieve his goal of getting the design licensed for manufacture and sale by a major motorcycle manufacturer, the initial production run of 36 Alligator motorcycles quickly sold out and are now prized collector's items.

Gurney's tall height, unusual for a race driver, caused constant problems during his career.^[18] During the 1.5-litre era of Formula 1, Gurney's head and shoulders extended high into the windstream compared to his shorter competitors, giving him (he felt) an aerodynamic disadvantage in the tiny, underpowered cars. At nearly 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m),^[19] Gurney struggled to fit into the tight Ford GT40 cockpit, so master fabricator Phil Remington installed a roof bubble over the driver's seat to allow space for Gurney's helmet—now known as a "Gurney bubble". In a fortunate error, the Italian coachbuilder who built the body for the 1964 Le Mans class-winning, closed-cockpit Cobra Daytona GT coupe driven by Gurney and Bob Bondurant mistakenly made the cockpit "greenhouse" two inches too tall — the only thing that permitted Gurney to fit in the car comfortably.^[20]

In 1962, Gurney and

]

Their initial focus was

. Although Gurney completed the race in seventh place, he was unclassified. Gurney scored the team's first Championship points three weeks later by finishing fifth in the French Grand Prix at Reims.

The next season the team failed to finish any of the first three races, but on June 18, 1967, Gurney took a historic victory in the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix. Starting in the middle of the first row, Gurney initially followed Jim Clark's Lotus and the BRM of Jackie Stewart. A poor start left Gurney deep in the field at the end of the first lap. Throughout the race, Gurney's Weslake V-12 suffered a high-speed misfire, but he was able to continue racing. Jim Clark encountered problems on Lap 12 that dropped him down to ninth position. Having moved up to second spot, Gurney set the fastest lap of the race on Lap 19. Two laps later he and his Eagle took the lead and came home over a minute ahead of Stewart.

At this race Gurney achieved the first "all-American" victory in a Grand Prix since Jimmy Murphy´s triumph with Duesenberg at the 1921 French Grand Prix. Excluding the Indianapolis 500, this is also the only win for a USA-built car as well as one of only two wins of an American-licensed constructor in Formula One.^[21][22] He also became one of only three drivers (along with Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren) to win a Formula One race in a car of his own construction.

The win in Belgium came just a week after his surprise victory with

]

Unfortunately, the victory in Belgium was the high point for AAR as engine problems continued to plague the Eagle. Despite the antiquated engine tooling used by the Weslake factory (dating from World War I), failures rarely stemmed from the engine design itself, but more often from unreliable peripheral systems like fuel pumps, fuel injection and the oil delivery system. He led the

.

Legacy

Among American Formula One drivers, his 86 Grand Prix starts ranks third, and his total of four GP wins is second only to Mario Andretti. Perhaps the greatest tribute to Gurney's driving ability, however, was paid by the father of Scottish World Champion Jim Clark. The elder Clark took Gurney aside at his son's funeral in 1968 and confided that he was the only driver Clark had ever feared on the track. (Horton, 1999).

Gurney was particularly noted for an exceptionally fluid driving style. On rare occasions, as when his car fell behind with minor mechanical troubles and he felt he had nothing to lose, he would abandon his classic technique and adopt a more aggressive (and riskier) style. This circumstance produced what many observers consider the finest driving performance of his career, when a punctured tire put him nearly two laps down halfway through the 1967 Rex Mays 300 Indycar race at Riverside, California. He produced an inspired effort, made up the deficit and won the race with a dramatic last-lap pass of runner-up Bobby Unser.

The 2010

A 2016 academic paper reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine. Gurney was ranked the 14th-best Formula One driver of all time.[24]

While competing in Formula One, Gurney also raced each year in the

. He started a total of 28 Champ Car races, winning 7 times among his 18 top tens. In 1969, he finished 4th in total points, despite starting only half the races of most top drivers (and would have finished second in the season standings to champion Mario Andretti if not for a driveshaft failure while leading comfortably with three laps remaining in the season finale at Riverside). In 1968, he finished 7th with only 5 starts.

Riverside 500 Ford Galaxie

Gurney's first career NASCAR start was in 1962. In 1963, he drove a Holman-Moody Ford to fifth place in the Daytona 500. Gurney was nearly unbeatable in a NASCAR Grand National car at Riverside International Raceway in California. Four of his five victories came with the famed Wood Brothers, in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968, in cars all numbered 121 (a simple graphic addition to the team's traditional "21"). The serial success of the Gurney/Wood Brothers combination did not sit well with NASCAR officials, so in 1967 Gurney signed to drive a Mercury for Bill Stroppe and legendary NASCAR crew chief Bud Moore. However, the 1967 Motor Trend 500 was won by Gurney's teammate, Parnelli Jones after Gurney retired with engine troubles. He also won the pole for the 1970 Riverside race in a Plymouth Superbird. Gurney is credited with numerous appearances in NASCAR Grand American stockcars, a pony car division that existed between 1968 and 1971, but these results came in races co-sanctioned with SCCA's Trans-Am, where Dan competed regularly for Mercury, and later Plymouth.

At about the time Gurney began making occasional appearances in stock cars in the United States, Dan took a Chevrolet Impala to England and entered it in several "saloon car" (sedan) races. In a race at Silverstone in 1962, he led the local Jaguar drivers handily until a wheel broke. When he returned with the same car for a race three months later, the local club's technical inspectors disallowed his entry.

Gurney and his protege Swede Savage drove factory-sponsored, AAR built Plymouth Barracudas in the 1970 Trans-Am Series. Cutbacks at Chrysler forced Gurney to cut back to a one-car effort mid-season with Savage driving. In his swan song as a driver, in October 1970 Gurney returned for the season finale at his beloved Riverside, finishing fifth.

In 1980, Gurney came out of a 10-year retirement to help old friend Les Richter, the president of Riverside. (Gurney's adoption of the number that became most closely identified with his career, 48, was a nod to Richter's NFL number.) Gurney agreed to drive a second Rod Osterlund Chevrolet for one NASCAR race as teammate to 1979 rookie of the year Dale Earnhardt. For added publicity and supposedly as a condition of allowing Gurney to drive in the race after a 10-year layoff, Richter insisted that Gurney attend the racing school run by former teammate and friend Bob Bondurant (Gurney and Bondurant had shared the GT-class-winning Cobra Daytona coupe at Le Mans in 1964). After Gurney's refresher session, Richter called Bondurant and asked how Gurney had done. "He didn't need a refresher," Bondurant reportedly told Richter. "He was faster than me then, and he still is." Ticket sales surged upon the announcement of Gurney's return. In a Chevy MonteCarlo painted white with blue and carrying his famed number 48, Gurney qualified seventh and easily ran with the leaders. Displaying his usual fluid style, Gurney raced up to second place, and was running third when the input shaft in the transmission let go, something Dan later said he had never seen happen before or since.

Gurney was recruited by

Gurney joined the Shelby-American campaign in the Sports Prototype class for 1966, which fielded the new 7 liter GT40 Mk II. Gurney's best finish that year was second place, teamed with Jerry Grant in a Mk II at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Between success with the new Mk II and the older GT40s, Ford secured the World Championship of Makes for sports cars, sealed by a resounding 1-2-3 finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans,^[33] recalled in the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari, in which Gurney was portrayed by his son.^[34][35]

Gurney stayed with Shelby-American for their 1967 World Sportscar Championship campaign. Things were not going smoothly in development of Ford's next Prototype entry. After problems highlighted by the fatal accident of

team.

Pre-race press chatter about the Mk IV's prospects, and in particular about Shelby's team of Gurney and Indy car driver A. J. Foyt, was negative: the Mk IV was too heavy and put too much demand on its brakes, it was structurally weak, it would be difficult to control, Foyt the oval racer was in over his head, Foyt would try to prove himself in the shadow of sportscar master Gurney, and so on. The static about Foyt was more stereotype than reality, as he had shown his road course mettle with a second-place showing at the grueling 12 Hours of Sebring in a Mk II earlier that year. As it turned out the race went like clockwork for Gurney and Foyt, establishing an early lead and a comfortable margin over the rival Ferraris, driving at a disciplined pace, and establishing a new record of 388 laps. On the podium, Gurney took the magnum of champagne and saw an opportunity for a playfully pointed statement towards journalists he saw crowding around. He shook the bottle and aimed the spritz at the naysayers. Soon he was giving everyone a shower, which became a podium tradition.

Ford's factory efforts for the World Sportscar Championship ended that year, as a new engine capacity limit of 3 liters for the Sports Prototype class made their entries ineligible and they had no engines that could be eligible and competitive. Shelby and Gurney independently turned their efforts to the

team.

In November 1971, Gurney and co-driver Brock Yates won the first competitive running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, known widely as the Cannonball Run, an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. Gurney and Yates made the run in 35 hours and 54 minutes in a stock 1971 Sunoco-blue Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona coupe capable of 175 mph (282 km/h). They averaged approximately 80 mph (130 km/h) over the 2,876 mi (4,628 km) distance, consuming 240 US gal (910 L) of gasoline. Gurney and Yates received no prize for winning; however, the winning car is now part of a private collection and valued at several million dollars.^[37][38][39]

Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

Upon his retirement from Formula One, Gurney devoted himself full-time to his role as car maker and team owner. He was the sole owner, Chairman and CEO of All American Racers from 1970 until his son, Justin, assumed the title of CEO in early 2011.^[40] The team won 78 races (including the Indianapolis 500, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the 24 Hours of Daytona) and eight championships, while Gurney's Eagle race car customers also won three Indianapolis 500 races and three championships.

In 1978, Gurney wrote an open memo to other race car owners with what is now known as the "White Paper" in which Gurney called for a series controlled more by the owners or "actual participants" than under the USAC banner. After much debate,

, and Bob Fletcher. CART began its first full season of competition in March 1979 and thus the first split in open wheel racing began.

AAR withdrew from the CART series in 1986, but enjoyed tremendous success with Toyota in the IMSA GTP series, where in 1992 and 1993 Toyota Eagles won 17 consecutive races, back-to-back Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championships, and wins in the endurance classics of Daytona and Sebring.

The team returned to CART as the factory Toyota team in 1996, but left again after the 1999 season when Goodyear withdrew from the series and Toyota ended their relationship with the team. In 2000, Dan campaigned a

under the AAR banner.

Death

In 2018 Gurney died of complications from pneumonia; he was 86 years old. All American Racers announced the news on its website: "With one last smile on his handsome face, Dan drove off into the unknown just before noon today, January 14, 2018. In deepest sorrow, with gratitude in our hearts for the love and joy you have given us during your time on this earth, we say 'Godspeed.'"^[41]

Gurney was survived by his wife, Evi, six children, and 8 grandchildren.^[42][43] As per his final wishes, his memorial service and funeral were private.

• He was inducted into the
  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 1988.^[44]
• He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1990.^[45]
• He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1991.^[46]
• He was inducted into the
  West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2003.^[11]
• He was inducted into the USAC Hall of Fame in 2022.^[47]
• He was inducted into the Trans-Am Series Hall of Fame in 2025.^[48]

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
1958	24 Hours of Le Mans – S 3.0	North American Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		1	0	0	0	0	—	—
	USAC Road Racing Championship	—	2	0	1	0	2	616	1st
	USAC Stock Car Series	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1959	Formula One	Scuderia Ferrari	7	0	0	0	2	13	7th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – S 3.0		1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		5	1	0	0	1	—	—
	USAC Road Racing Championship	—	1	1	1	0	0	0	NC
1960	Formula One	Owen Racing Organisation	7	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Formula Two	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans – S 3.0	B.S. Cunningham	1	0	0	1	0	—	DNF
	World Sportcar Championship	Camoradi International	4	1	0	1	1	—	—
	USAC Road Racing Championship	—	2	0	1	0	0	0	NC
1961	Formula One	Porsche System Engineering	8	0	0	0	3	21	4th
	British Saloon Car Championship	—	1	0	1	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans – S 2.0	Porsche KG	1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		4	0	0	0	1	—	—
	USAC Road Racing Championship	—	3	0	1	1	2	?	?
1962	Formula One	Porsche System Engineering	7	1	1	0	2	15	5th
		Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	1	0	0	0	0	0
	USAC Championship Car	Harvey Aluminium	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans – E 3.0	Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		x	x	x	x	x	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Holman-Moody	2	0	0	0	0	472	77th
	USAC Road Racing Championship	—	9	5	1	1	6	?	2nd
	USAC Stock Car Series	—	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	CASC Canadian Sports Car Championship	—	2	0	1	2	0	?	?
1963	Formula One	Brabham Racing Organisation	10	0	0	3	1	19	5th
	USAC Championship Car	Team Lotus	3	0	0	0	1	580	12th
	British Saloon Car Championship	Alan Brown Racing Ltd	1	1	1	1	1	9	22nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans – P +3.0	North American Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship	Shelby American	4	1	?	?	?	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Holman-Moody	3	1	0	0	1	—	—
	USAC Stock Car Series	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	CASC Canadian Sports Car Championship	—	1	0	0	0	1	?	?
1964	Formula One	Brabham Racing Organisation	10	2	2	2	2	19	6th
	USAC Championship Car	Team Lotus	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	British Saloon Car Championship	Alan Brown Racing Ltd	1	0	0	0	1	6	6th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – GT +3.0	Shelby American	1	1	0	0	1	—	1st
	World Sportscar Championship		6	0	0	0	1	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Wood Brothers Racing	4	1	0	0	1	—	—
	CASC Canadian Sports Car Championship	—	1	0	1	0	0	?	?
1965	Formula One	Brabham Racing Organisation	9	0	0	1	5	25	4th
	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	3	0	0	0	1	230	26th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – GT 5.0	Shelby American	1	0	0	0	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		x	x	x	x	x	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Wood Brothers Racing	1	1	0	0	1	—	—
	British Sports Car Championship	All American Racers	1	0	0	0	0	—	—
1966	Formula One	Anglo American Racers	8	0	0	0	0	4	12th
	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Shelby American	1	0	1	1	0	—	DNF
	World Sportscar Championship		x	x	x	x	x	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Wood Brothers Racing	1	1	0	0	1	—	—
	Canadian-American Challenge Cup	All American Racers	5	1	2	2	1	9	7th
1967	Formula One	Anglo American Racers	11	1	0	2	2	13	8th
	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	2	1	1	?	1	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Ford Motor Company	1	1	0	0	1	—	1st
	World Sportscar Championship		x	x	x	x	x	—	—
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Stroppe Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0	—	—
	Canadian-American Challenge Cup	All American Racers	6	0	1	0	0	0	NC
	Trans-American Championship – +2.0	Bud Moore Engineering	4	1	1	0	2	—	—
1968	Formula One	Anglo American Racers	8	0	0	0	0	3	21st
		Brabham Racing Organisation	1	0	0	0	0	0
	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	5	3	4	?	4	1,800	7th
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Wood Brothers Racing	1	1	1	0	1	—	—
	Canadian-American Challenge Cup	All American Racers	5	0	0	0	0	1	15th
	Trans-American Championship – +2.0	Shelby American	5	0	0	0	0	—	—
1969	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	9	2	5	?	7	2,280	4th
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Wood Brothers Racing	1	0	0	0	0	—	—
	Canadian-American Challenge Cup	All American Racers	3	0	0	0	0	10	11th
		McLaren Cars	1	0	0	0	1	12
	Trans-American Championship – +2.0	Shelby American	2	0	0	0	1	—	—
1970	Formula One	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	3	0	0	0	0	1	24th
	USAC Championship Car	All American Racers	3	1	0	?	2	1,000	11th
	NASCAR Grand National Series	Petty Enterprises	1	0	1	0	0	—	—
	Canadian-American Challenge Cup	Bruce McLaren Racing	3	2	2	1	2	42	7th
	Trans-American Championship – +2.0	All American Racers	4	0	0	0	0	—	—
1978	Macau Grand Prix – Race of Giants	—	1	0	0	0	0	—	4th
1980	NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Osterlund Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0	—	—
Source:[49]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Pts
1959	Scuderia Ferrari	Dino 246	V6	MON	500	NED	FRA Ret	GBR	GER 2	POR 3	ITA 4	USA					7th	13
1960	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P48	L4	ARG	MON NC	500	NED Ret	BEL Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 10	POR Ret	ITA	USA Ret				NC	0
1961	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 718	F4	MON 5		BEL 6	FRA 2	GBR 7	GER 7	ITA 2	USA 2						4th	21
		Porsche 787			NED 10
1962	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 804	Porsche 753 1.5 F8	NED Ret	MON Ret		FRA 1	GBR 9	GER 3	ITA Ret	USA 5	RSA					5th	15
	Autosport Team Wolfgang Seidel	Lotus 24	BRM P56 1.5 V8			BEL DNS
1963	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT7	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON Ret	BEL 3	NED 2	FRA 5	GBR Ret	GER Ret	ITA 14	USA Ret	MEX 6	RSA 2				5th	19
1964	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT7	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON Ret	NED Ret	BEL 6	FRA 1	GBR 13	GER 10	AUT Ret	ITA 10	USA Ret	MEX 1				6th	19
1965	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	RSA Ret	MON	BEL 10	FRA Ret	GBR 6	NED 3	GER 3	ITA 3	USA 2	MEX 2				4th	25
1966	Anglo American Racers	Eagle T1F	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	MON	BEL NC	FRA 5	GBR Ret	NED Ret	GER 7			MEX 5					12th	4
		Eagle T1G	Weslake 58 3.0 V12							ITA Ret	USA Ret
1967	Anglo American Racers	Eagle T1F	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	RSA Ret													8th	13
		Eagle T1G	Weslake 58 3.0 V12		MON Ret	NED Ret	BEL 1	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	CAN 3	ITA Ret	USA Ret	MEX Ret
1968	Anglo American Racers	Eagle T1G	Weslake 58 3.0 V12	RSA Ret	ESP	MON Ret	BEL		FRA	GBR Ret	GER 9	ITA Ret					21st	3
		McLaren M7A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8										CAN Ret	USA 4	MEX Ret
	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT24	Repco 740 3.0 V8					NED Ret
1970	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	McLaren M14A	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED Ret	FRA 6	GBR Ret	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	24th	1
Sources:[50][51]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1960	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P48	L4	GLV Ret	INT Ret		LOM DNS	OUL 6
	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4			SIL 7
1961	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 718	F4	LOM	GLV	PAU	BRX Ret	VIE		SYR 2	NAP	LON		SOL 3	KAN	DAN	MOD 3	FLG	OUL DNA	LEW	VAL	RAN	NAT	RSA
	Louise Bryden-Brown	Lotus 18	Climax FPF 1.5 L4						AIN 14				SIL 5
1962	Porsche System Engineering	Porsche 804	Porsche 753 1.5 F8	CAP	BRX	LOM	LAV	GLV	PAU	AIN	INT	NAP	MAL	CLP	RMS	SOL 1	KAN	MED	DAN	OUL	MEX DNA	RAN	NAT
1963	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT7	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT DNA	ROM	SOL	KAN DNA	MED	AUT	OUL Ret	RAN
1964	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT7	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN Ret	INT Ret	SOL DNA	MED	RAN
1965	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham BT11	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	ROC Ret	SYR	SMT 9	INT	MED	RAN
1967	Anglo American Racers	Eagle T1G	Weslake 58 3.0 V12	ROC 1	SPC	INT	SYR	OUL	ESP
Source:[52]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1958	North American Racing Team	Bruce Kessler	Ferrari 250 TR	S 3.0	64	DNF	DNF
1959	Scuderia Ferrari	Jean Behra	Ferrari 250 TR/59	S 3.0	129	DNF	DNF
1960	B.S. Cunningham	Walt Hansgen	Jaguar E2A	S 3.0	89	DNF	DNF
1961	Porsche System Engineering	Jo Bonnier	Porsche 718/4 RS Coupe	S 2.0	262	DNF	DNF
1962	Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Jo Bonnier	Ferrari 250 TRI/61	E 3.0	30	DNF	DNF
1963	North American Racing Team	Jim Hall	Ferrari 330 LMB	P +3.0	126	DNF	DNF
1964	Shelby-American Inc.	Bob Bondurant	Shelby Cobra Daytona	GT +3.0	334	4th	1st
1965	Shelby American	Jerry Grant	AC Cobra Daytona Coupé	GT 5.0	204	DNF	DNF
1966	Shelby American	Jerry Grant	Ford GT40 Mk.II	P +5.0	257	DNF	DNF
1967	Shelby-American Inc.	A. J. Foyt	Ford Mk IV	P +5.0	388	1st	1st
Sources:[50][53]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts	Class
1961	Dan Gurney	Chevrolet Impala	D	SNE	GOO	AIN	SIL Ret	CRY	SIL DNS	BRH	OUL	SNE			NC	0	NC
1963	Alan Brown Racing Ltd	Ford Galaxie	D	SNE	OUL	GOO	AIN	SIL	CRY	SIL	BRH	BRH	OUL ovr:1 cls:1	SNE	22nd	9	6th
1964	Alan Brown Racing Ltd	Ford Galaxie	D	SNE	GOO	OUL	AIN	SIL ovr:2 cls:2	CRY	BRH	OUL				17th	6	6th
Source:[54]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

NASCAR Grand National Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	NGNC	Pts	Ref
1962	Holman-Moody	0	Ford	CON	AWS	DAY 4	DAY	DAY 27	CON	AWS	SVH	HBO	RCH	CLB	NWS	GPS	MBS	MAR	BGS	BRI	RCH	HCY	CON	DAR	PIF	CLT	ATL	BGS	AUG	RCH	SBO	DAY	CLB	ASH	GPS	AUG	SVH	MBS	BRI	CHT	NSV	HUN	AWS	STR	BGS	PIF	VAL	DAR	HCY	RCH	DTS	AUG	MAR	NWS	CLT	ATL										77th	472	[55]
1963		28		BIR	GGS	THS	RSD 1*																																																											NA	-	[56]
		0						DAY 5	DAY	DAY 5	PIF	AWS	HBO	ATL	HCY	BRI	AUG	RCH	GPS	SBO	BGS	MAR	NWS	CLB	THS	DAR	ODS	RCH	CLT	BIR	ATL	DAY	MBS	SVH	DTS	BGS	ASH	OBS	BRR	BRI	GPS	NSV	CLB	AWS	PIF	BGS	ONA	DAR	HCY	RCH	MAR	DTS	NWS	THS	CLT	SBO	HBO
	Wood Brothers Racing	121	Ford																																																							RSD QL†
1964				CON	AUG	JSP	SVH	RSD 1*	DAY																																																									NA	-	[57]
		12								DAY 10	DAY 14	RCH	BRI	GPS	BGS	ATL 36	AWS	HBO	PIF	CLB	NWS	MAR	SVH	DAR	LGY	HCY	SBO	CLT	GPS	ASH	ATL	CON	NSV	CHT	BIR	VAL	PIF	DAY	ODS	OBS	BRR	ISP	GLN	LIN	BRI	NSV	MBS	AWS	DTS	ONA	CLB	BGS	STR	DAR	HCY	RCH	ODS	HBO	MAR	SVH	NWS	CLT	HAR	AUG	JAC
1965		121		RSD 1*	DAY	DAY	DAY	PIF	ASW	RCH	HBO	ATL	GPS	NWS	MAR	CLB	BRI	DAR	LGY	BGS	HCY	CLT	CCF	ASH	HAR	NSV	BIR	ATL	GPS	MBS	VAL	DAY	ODS	OBS	ISP	GLN	BRI	NSV	CCF	AWS	SMR	PIF	AUG	CLB	DTS	BLV	BGS	DAR	HCY	LIN	ODS	RCH	MAR	NWS	CLT	HBO	CAR	DTS								NA	-	[58]
1966				AUG	RSD 1*	DAY	DAY	DAY	CAR	BRI	ATL	HCY	CLB	GPS	BGS	NWS	MAR	DAR	LGY	MGR	MON	RCH	CLT	DTS	ASH	PIF	SMR	AWS	BLV	GPS	DAY	ODS	BRR	OXF	FON	ISP	BRI	SMR	NSV	ATL	CLB	AWS	BLV	BGS	DAR	HCY	RCH	HBO	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR														NA	-	[59]
1967	Stroppe Motorsports	16	Mercury	AUG	RSD 14	DAY	DAY	DAY	AWS	BRI	GPS	BGS	ATL	CLB	HCY	NWS	MAR	SVH	RCH	DAR	BLV	LGY	CLT	ASH	MGR	SMR	BIR	CAR	GPS	MGY	DAY	TRN	OXF	FDA	ISP	BRI	SMR	NSV	ATL	BGS	CLB	SVH	DAR	HCY	RCH	BLV	HBO	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	AWS														NA	-	[60]
1968	Wood Brothers Racing	121	Ford	MGR	MGY	RSD 1*	DAY	BRI	RCH	ATL	HCY	GPS	CLB	NWS	MAR	AUG	AWS	DAR	BLV	LGY	CLT	ASH	MGR	SMR	BIR	CAR	GPS	DAY	ISP	OXF	FDA	TRN	BRI	SMR	NSV	ATL	CLB	BGS	AWS	SBO	LGY	DAR	HCY	RCH	BLV	HBO	MAR	NWS	AUG	CLT	CAR	JFC														NA	-	[61]
1969			Mercury	MGR	MGY	RSD 26	DAY	DAY	DAY	CAR	AUG	BRI	ATL	CLB	HCY	GPS	RCH	NWS	MAR	AWS	DAR	BLV	LGY	CLT	MGR	SMR	MCH	KPT	GPS	NCF	DAY	DOV	TPN	TRN	BLV	BRI	NSV	SMR	ATL	MCH	SBO	BGS	AWS	DAR	HCY	RCH	TAL	CLB	MAR	NWS	CLT	SVH	AUG	CAR	JFC	MGR	TWS									NA	-	[62]
1970	Petty Enterprises	42	Plymouth	RSD 6	DAY	DAY	DAY	RCH	CAR	SVH	ATL	BRI	TAL	NWS	CLB	DAR	BLV	LGY	CLT	SMR	MAR	MCH	RSD	HCY	KPT	GPS	DAY	AST	TPN	TRN	BRI	SMR	NSV	ATL	CLB	ONA	MCH	TAL	BGS	SBO	DAR	HCY	RCH	DOV	NCF	NWS	CLT	MAR	MGR	CAR	LGY															NA	-	[63]
† – Qualified but replaced by Marvin Panch.

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	NWCC	Pts	Ref
1980	Osterlund Racing	48	Chevrolet	RSD 28	DAY	RCH	CAR	ATL	BRI	DAR	NWS	MAR	TAL	NSV	DOV	CLT	TWS	RSD	MCH	DAY	NSV	POC	TAL	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	NWS	MAR	CLT	CAR	ATL	ONT	NA	-	[64]

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
1962	Holman-Moody	Ford	7	27
1963			11	5
1964	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	20	14

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	Pos	Points
1962	TRE	INDY 20	MIL	LAN	TRE	SPR	MIL	LAN	SYR	ISF	TRE	SAC	PHX																-	0
1963	TRE	INDY 7	MIL	LAN	TRE	SPR	MIL 3	DUQ	ISF	TRE 16	SAC	PHX																	12th	580
1964	PHX	TRE	INDY 17	MIL	LAN	TRE	SPR	MIL	DUQ	ISF	TRE	SAC	PHX																-	0
1965	PHX	TRE	INDY 26	MIL	LAN	PPR	TRE	IRP	ATL	LAN	MIL 3	ISF	MIL 12	DSF	INF	TRE	SAC	PHX											26th	230
1966	PHX	TRE	INDY 27	MIL	LAN	ATL	PIP	IRP	LAN	SPR	MIL	DUQ	ISF	TRE	SAC	PHX													-	0
1967	PHX	TRE	INDY 21	MIL	LAN	PIP	MOS	MOS	IRP	LAN	MTR	MTR	SPR	MIL	DUQ	ISF	TRE	SAC	HAN	PHX	RIV 1								-	0
1968	HAN	LVG 16	PHX	TRE	INDY 2	MIL	MOS 1	MOS 1	LAN	PIP	CDR	NAZ	IRP	IRP	LAN	LAN	MTR	MTR	SPR	MIL	DUQ	ISF	TRE	SAC	MCH	HAN	PHX	RIV 1	7th	1,800
1969	PHX	HAN	INDY 2	MIL	LAN	PIP	CDR 2	NAZ	TRE	IRP 1	IRP 21	MIL	SPR	DOV	DUQ	ISF	BRN 2	BRN 1	TRE	SAC	KEN 3	KEN 4	PHX	RIV 3					4th	2,280
1970	PHX	SON 1	TRE	INDY 3	MIL	LAN	CDR	MCH	IRP	SPR	MIL	ONT 18	DUQ	ISF	SED	TRE	SAC	PHX											11th	1,000

Winner of the 1958 inaugural USAC Road Racing Championship.

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
1962	Thompson	Buick	8th	20th
1963	Lotus	Ford	12th	7th
1964	Lotus	Ford	6th	17th
1965	Lotus	Ford	3rd	26th
1966	Eagle	Ford	19th	27th
1967	Eagle	Ford	2nd	21st
1968	Eagle	Ford	10th	2nd
1969	Eagle	Ford	10th	2nd
1970	Eagle	Offy	11th	3rd

See also

• Formula One drivers from the United States
• Riverside International Automotive Museum

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Further reading

• Eagle-eye. Dan Gurney's All American Racers.
• Dan Gurney. GP Encyclopedia. The Motorsport Company.
• Blinkhorn, Robert. Dan Gurney. Grand Prix Racing—The Whole Story.
• David, Dennis. Dan Gurney Archived October 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Grand Prix History.
• Horton, Roger (1999). Remember Jim Clark. Atlas Formula One Journal.
• The Gurney Flap.All American Racers – Gurney Flap.
• The Greatest 33
• Dan Gurney - ChampCarStats.com
• Dan Gurney driver statistics at Racing-Reference

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dan Gurney.

• Dan Gurney's All-American Racers
• Official Gurney-Weslake home page
• Dan Gurney at 24 Hours of Le Mans (in French)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mike Spence	Brands Hatch Race of Champions Winner 1967	Succeeded by Bruce McLaren
Preceded by Bruce McLaren Chris Amon	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1967 With: A. J. Foyt	Succeeded by Pedro Rodriguez Lucien Bianchi