The full-size Bowtie pleasure cruiser unceremoniously broke the track record, with Dan behind the wheel, by eight-tenths of a second, much to the chagrin of the Corvette that had set it.
Dan Gurney turned the British Touring Car Championship on its head in 1961 when he unleashed a high-powered Chevrolet Impala on the field. The Big Eagle, driving the big American sedan, wore out ...
So it’s no surprise that the great American racer Dan Gurney would ... the day was bittersweet. Gurney was leading the Silverstone race when the car broke a wheel and dropped out, on the second ...