[God luvs America]

Truly one of the great open wheel racers from the United States...one of the few to build his own F1 car and win a race in that car (1967 AT Spa with the Eagle)..also started the tradition of spraying champagne from the podium..

[God luvs America]

F1 ping...

[yarddog]

I remember him but did not realize how many different types he drove.

It seems like I recall him racing Camaro’s or Mustangs or whatever else was in that class.

[hinckley buzzard]

All through the fifties and sixties, Indy was a national institution. Every Memorial Day, millions of Americans would take the day off, enjoy a picnic somewhere, and listen to the Indy 500 on the radio, portable or maybe car radio, turned up so it could be heard around the fire or at the picnic table.

Dan Gurney was one of the names known throughout the land. AJ Foyt, later joined by Mario Andretti, brickyard heroes every kid knew. And nobody gave a hang about some Frenchman with a monocle at Monte Carlo.

[MtnClimber]

The Gurney Eagles were a great car by Dan.

[Paladin2]

RIP to a Great American...

[rdcbn]

Gurney was amazing

AAR was running a Toyota back when Gurney was in his mid to late 60s

The drivers were having problems with the car in testing and could not get it up to speed

Gurney took it out on the track to see what was wrong

Dan had not been in a race car for almost 20 years

He was faster than any other driver by many seconds and his times would have put him on the pole in an actual race and was close to track record

Amazing guy

[cyclotic]

And winner of the 1972 Cannonball Run. 35 hours, 54 minutes, New York to long beach,CA. He said they never exceeded 175 mph

[Charles Martel]

Dan was the first to spray the crowd with champagne from the winner's podium. "Iconic" seems too small a word to describe him.

[umgud]

RIP, sorry to hear it.

[glasseye]

As a little boy I was fixated on race cars.
Good days, those days.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

The guy was top drawer for sure.Prayers for his family.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[TTFlyer]

Dan Gurney and his Eagle were awesome. Gurney won the Belgian GP at Spa Francorchamps during the ‘67 F-1 season, back when F-1 and Spa were extremely dangerous.

Nothing will ever again compare to the drivers and cars of that era.

R.I.P. Mr. Gurney, you were a class act.

[ASA Vet]

A friend of mine was on the same Ferrari team

[PAR35]

Gurney won seven IndyCar races

I don't recall it being called "IndyCar" back then. USAC was the sanctioning body, as I recall, followed by CART. Indy Racing League didn't come along until decades later.

The Fake News liberals at ABC lie even when they don't need to.

[glasseye]

One of my best friends was a porche trained mech in the mid 50’s.
He did a bunch of racing stuff but mostly super at suspension tuning at Laguna seca in California.
He taught me a bunch of stuff, way beyond machines.
I was going through his phone after he died and I found MARIO ANDRETTIs phone number.

[Seaplaner]

IIRC, I saw Dan Gurney race a couple of times at Laguna Seca (I was a teenage kid at the time.)

He was a legend during his own time, and deservedly so.

RIP.

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[ConservaTeen]

RIP.... Prayers to his family....

[WayneS]

I met Dan Gurney and spoke to him a couple of times (long after he’d retired from racing). I ran in to him at a drivers’ reception during an F1 race weekend a number of years ago and we discussed his “Gator” motorcycle concept at length.

He was not only an amazing and versatile driver, he was an amazing and versatile designer/engineer as well.