Sentences with phrase «gurney won»

Despite legendary bad luck, Gurney won more Formula 1 races than any American not named Mario Andretti, and he claimed five NASCAR victories (in six years) on the road course at Riverside.

Dan Gurney won in «62, Jack Brabham in «63, and in 1964 Jim Clark mastered wet conditions to beat John Surtees, who had won there in 1960 on a bike.

Not exact matches

Dan Gurney, one of the Grand Prix West's originators and driving forces, won the seven - lap event in a 1959 BRM.

The 1961 French Grand Prix was a real race of attrition and come the end the battle for the win came down to Baghetti's Ferrari and Gurney's Porsche, with the Italian coming out on top as they crossed the line.

Ever since Dan Gurney did it after winning Le Mans in 1967, spraying champagne on the podium has become a motorsports tradition.

In the 1964 Belgian Grand Prix Jim Clark won when long - time leader Dan Gurney and then Graham Hill dropped out late on.

In 1965 there were no wins but Gurney did take five consecutive podiums, scored 25 points, finished fourth in the championship and continued to outshine teammates Denny Hulme and Brabham himself, who was beginning to consider retirement as a result.

One week after that Le Mans triumph and Gurney was at Spa, winning the Belgian Grand Prix in his Eagle, proving that American drivers and American technology could well and truly compete in Europe.

In 1964 Gurney continued to churn out the results, taking back - to - back pole positions at Zandvoort and Spa, scoring the team's first win in the French GP and then adding another in the season finale in Mexico.

He was drafted in by Ferrari and in a race which saw quite a lot of unreliability managed to slipstream past Dan Gurney on the final lap to win by just a tenth of a second.

If Mensur Suljovic draws against Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright needs a draw or a win against Daryl Gurney to eliminate Suljovic.

In the end, Gurney and Foyt made winning look easy.

The red and white livery is a throwback to Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt's Ford GT40 MKIV that won Le Mans in 1967.

Despite taking home first and third in GTE - Pro last year, the Ford GT couldn't pull off a win to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt's 1967 Le Mans victory.

It became Motor Trend's Import Car of the Year and also made Car and Driver's 10 Best, plus it was introduced at the same time Toyota partnered with Dan Gurney's All American Racers to win a string of championships in IMSA sports car racing.

The GT's origins, as you probably know, go back a half - century to Henry Ford II's dictate to a surprised (or maybe «stunned» works better here) Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby, who were summoned to the towering company headquarters near Detroit and told to go to Le Mans and, paraphrasing here, «Just win, baby.»

He won the 2007 and 2009 GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype drivers» championship and is the son of racing legend Dan Gurney.

He's won events in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can - Am, and Trans - Am, and is responsible for numerous inventions like the Gurney flap (a.k.a. «wickerbill») and the full - face racing helmet.

Of course, that memorable race win is far from Dan Gurney's sole accolade.

Dan Gurney's list of accomplishments is long, but of particular interest to fans of the Ford brand is his 1967 win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans along with co-driver A.J. Foyt in the Ford GT40 Mk IV — the win that spurred him to spontaneously spray champagne from the podium.

The new combination of Chevrolet Corvette drivers won the Grand - Am Rolex Series race at Barber Motorsports Park, edging manufacturer «teammates» Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney.

Bondurant helped Shelby Cobras make their mark in the racing world as a Shelby American team driver in 1963, then in 1964 partnered with Dan Gurney to win the GT class in a Daytona at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, beating arch-rival Ferrari.