RIP Dan Guerney

[Benny Profane]

He made it to old age. Considering the time he raced, that's an achievement. Made one of the most beautiful F1 cars ever, the Eagle, and won Spa in it. And winner of the first Cannonball run, with Brock Yates at his side, in a Ferrari Daytona. Yates's writing about Guerney doing that in Sunday Driver is quite entertaining.

[XXX-er]

i think you might have mispeld it but yeah he was cool

made it to 86 which is a pretty good run

[Benny Profane]

Whoops, sorry, Dan, about the spelling.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/d...s-away-995822/

[iceman]

Dan Gurney was just the man. Smart, classy, cosmopolitan, inventive, fearless...seriously, he was a Great American. RIP Mr. Gurney.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...ituary-feature

[Benny Profane]

6ft. 4". They had to put a little bulge in the GT 40 roof to accomadate him. You'll never see a driver so tall anymore. They're all jockeys now.

[jono]

Great career and a great man, one of a rare breed of engineering minds. Always grated my nerves a little when someone would refer to a Gurney Flap as a "wickerbill."

[4matic]

6ft. 4". They had to put a little bulge in the GT 40 roof to accomadate him. You'll never see a driver so tall anymore. They're all jockeys now.

Justin Wilson was 6’4”

[Benny Profane]

Well, look what happened to him.

[willywhit]

what a legend
RIP Dan Gurney

[Benny Profane]

what a legend
RIP Dan Gurney

Thats really cool. He remembered the whole thing. Thats a long time ago.

I saw Can Am a little later, not with him. Those things were incredible. Roaring, nasty American 427 and plus iron, sitting in a frame and covered by a quivering fiberglass shell. Whats really cool is that he said his pole time was a tad quicker than F1 laps recorded there. That's something. That's fast.

[galibier_numero_un]

One of my childhood heros.

[SB]

Had several of my track racers setup to look like his cars.

RIP