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Racing legend Dan Gurney R.I.P.
American motor racing legend Dan Gurney, a Formula 1 and Le Mans 24 Hours winner in the sixties who started a trend by spraying champagne on the victory podium, died in California on Sunday at the age of 86. The news was announced by his wife Evi and family in a statement. “With one last smile on his handsome face, Dan drove off into the unknown just before noon today, January 14, 2018,” it said. The family said Gurney, whose Formula One career spanned one of the most glamorous and dangerous periods of the sport’s history from 1959 to 1970, had died of complications from pneumonia. A winner also in IndyCar and NASCAR, and inventor of the ‘Gurney Flap’ aerodynamic device, he was...
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