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I sit here pondering: \u201cHow do you say something about\u00a0 Dan Gurney that hasn\u2019t already been said?\u201d It\u2019s tough. Few, if any, across motor sport history have had the breadth of success and experience that Gurney has enjoyed. Sure, many have won Grands Prix, or Le Mans, or NASCAR races, or Indycar races, or sports car races, but how many have enjoyed success in all those disciplines and then went on to build championship-winning racecars in a variety of categories?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Since this issue is devoted to the full expanse of Dan\u2019s incredible career and his being honored at the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion, you\u2019ll read all about his many achievements in the various articles and columns that we\u2019ve crafted here. But in my column I wanted somehow to provide a different insight into Dan\u2014beyond his racing record.<\/p>\n

Dan has been a big fan and supporter of Vintage Racecar, right from its beginning in 1998, so over the years I\u2019ve been fortunate to get to spend a fair bit of time talking with him about cars and his career. In one of the first interviews I ever did with him, I asked him how the son of an opera singer and an artist goes on to become a racing legend. In going back and relistening to his response, I\u2019m struck both by his unusual answer and the almost child-like, wide-eyed enthusiasm that these memories from his first exposure to motorsport seem to elicit. Even after some 60 years, his vivid memories for this early experience, I think, speak volumes about who he is as a man and what he achieved as a driver.<\/p>\n

According to Dan:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, ya know, opera includes sound! And the sound of engines\u2026well, I was never a great fan of opera, and I wasn\u2019t into show business.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, one of the things that does have a connection, one of my first passionate racing fan experiences, was at a little track in Freeport, Long Island. It was a little one-fifth-mile paved track. At one end the turn was totally flat, and the other had a little tiny bit of banking on it. Because it was paved, the cars shined, and it was nighttime racing with lights. They would bring the cars out with John Phillips Sousa\u2019s marching music and baton twirlers like cheerleaders, then roll these midgets out to do battle. These were the days when it wasn\u2019t just one kind of engine. It was probably, on any given race, you had five different brands, different sounds. Among other things, there were huge, standing\u2013room-only crowds, and we had a driver from our town in Manhasset named Phil Walters, who raced there as Ted Tappett. It couldn\u2019t have been\u2026it was like going to heaven every week when we\u2019d go to this thing. At the end of that event, usually there was one section outside the grandstands where the motorcycles would park. So afterward they\u2019d fire these cycles up, everybody getting ready to leave. And, of course, they had open exhausts and everything else, so that was an additional entr\u00e9e to the racing. So the sounds of racing engines\u2026and the smells, you know, Castor Oil was used a lot in those days. Those were all\u2026that isn\u2019t opera, but there\u2019s more to it, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

I went on to ask Dan, \u201cSo it was the sound more than the speed that grabbed you in the beginning?\u201d<\/p>\n

He replied, \u201cYeah, it wasn\u2019t speed so much, but there was a lot of danger involved and a lot of skill, and a lot of\u2014without even realizing it\u2014technology. Why does one engine sound different than the other? Why does one guy get down the straightaway a little bit better, and how come some people can work their way through traffic without hitting other people when other guys can\u2019t? How do you choose up sides about who\u2019s your favorite\u2026it was all part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As our conversation progressed, I came to learn that, like his fellow countryman Phil Hill, Dan was a very intelligent, \u201cthinking\u201d driver who really brought a much broader perspective to his racing and his relationship with cars. Perhaps, like Hill, that is the attribute that enabled him to achieve so much in a career that spans six decades\u2026and counting!<\/p>\n

Congrats Dan, on being only the second individual to be honored at the Monterey Historics\/Monterey Motorsports Reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sit here pondering: \u201cHow do you say something about\u00a0 Dan Gurney that hasn\u2019t already been said?\u201d It\u2019s tough. Few, if any, across motor sport history have had the breadth of success and experience that Gurney has enjoyed. Sure, many have won Grands Prix, or Le Mans, or NASCAR races, or Indycar races, or sports car races, but how many have enjoyed success in all those disciplines and then went on to build championship-winning racecars in a variety of categories? 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