Dan Gurney

I got to watch him take a sheet of aluminum as you would say over here and not measure a thing and make it.

And what man? And I had lunch every day with Dan, got to know him really well.

He gave me a champagne shaking, uh, school with the bottle from Le Mans.

It was surreal.

The owners love that.

Yeah, it was cool.

Gurney used to come and things.

Oh, they'll do CSX numbers on the

GT40? Dan Gurney have a 1966 Ford GT40 title.

Oh, wow.

Whoa.

That's

sick.

The Dan Gurney 427.

Wow.

Through Luigi Canetti, Enzo's man in the United States, he was signed on to drive for Scuderia Ferrari and was second in the 1956 Buenos Aires 1000 km race.

And Luigi Canetti was the reason you saw so many American drivers fail here, Dan Gurney, Richie Gunther drive for Ferrari.

Other victories included Swedish Grand Prix for sports cars in Messina, five hours in Italy.

In 1957, he won the Venezuelan Grand Prix at Caracas with Peter Collins, Peter Collins from England.

First man to win Indy 504 times and I asked him which one was the sweetest for him and it's interesting what his answer was.

Other major achievements for A.J. Ford include victories at Daytona 500 and Le Mans 24-hour race in 1967.

And, of course, his teammate then in the Ford GT was Dan Gurney.

So I asked him, hey, your text is tough, he's California cool.

Two wheels? What was he racing in? Two wheels with a

motorcycle? Now, Sturtees finished second behind Dan Gurney, but that was enough to beat Graham Hill by a single point after Graham Hill was rammed while running into a title-winning position.

Jim Clark, who'd started on pole on that day, looked set to take both race and championship.

He had retired on the final lap, and they say it was one of Formula One's greatest late games.

You got Logan Sargent, Andretti, and then a couple more that sometimes I forget.

Phil Hill and Dan Gurney, that's going way back.

But we've had two American world champions in the 75 years of Formula One.

So not a good record at all.

And when you're not the only one, I can tell you after all the years here that that is the, the, the most requested car that we have to go out.

Um, and Dan, I, we are very fortunate to know Dan Gurney and work with he and his family for so many years on different things and events.

And, and, uh, and so, uh, it's, it's emotional to me too, because I spent a lot of time with Dan in that car around that car.

And, uh, And it is a Lentary design, beautiful design.

After his third Indy 500 win, Foyt traveled to France to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Co-driving a Ford GT40 Mark IV with Dan Gurney, Foyt won the race in his first and only attempt, defeating the factory Ferrari team.

Following the victory, Gurney spontaneously sprayed champagne from the podium, establishing a celebration tradition that is practiced globally across motorsports today.

Foyt proved his versatility by competing in stock cars.

going to race, I'm going to race Miatas, you know.

I don't want to, you know, I did the, I did a celebrity race once with Dan Gurney, right? So I'm right behind Dan.

One of the things, they gave everybody a Toyota Celica.

I'm right behind Dan Gurney.

Okay, I'll do, brake lights, brake lights.

Turn, turn.