On the international scene, in ways he was the definitive “overnight success.” As Sports Illustrated reported in 1959, “Dan Gurney, an obscure club driver 16 months ago, has joined the Ferrari sports car team.” Stunningly, but two years later in 1961, he tied British great Stirling Moss for third in the F1 Championship. He soon became a world-renown driver, constructor and team owner, competing at the highest levels of motorsport. Like most drivers in the 1950s, Dan Gurney, one of the living legends in American sports car racing, started with SCCA club races, starting in a Triumph TR2 in 1955. The son of a Metropolitan Opera star in New York, a move as a teenager to Riverside, California, set him on a distinctly different path. One member did it all…a tall man from California named Gurney. ![]() Some teach us how to compete, some how to build cars, and a very few show us what it means to win.
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