RACER with Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt on Le Mans 1967
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- čas přidán 6. 04. 2017
- RACER Magazine gets an exclusive invitation to sit with two of motor racing's biggest legends, Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt, as the winners of the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the amazing achievement with Ford and the iconic GT40 Mk IV.
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RIP Dan Gurney.
RIP Robin Miller.
God Speed to AJ Foyt
Absolute Racing History in this Video!!
God Speed, Dan Gurney.
Genuinely nice man.
I was volunteering my time on the announcer stand at Ascot, during the 1984 Pacific Coast Sprint Car Nationals...We were getting ready for the 50-lap A-Main Event, and I looked to my left....and there he was.
I remembered saying, as he walked in front me....”OMG! Dan Gurney!”. No sooner than that with a smile on his face… He reached over and shook my hand.....
Someone that he never knew or met.
I can’t even write this without losing it.
I can’t write anymore… I’m a mess.
Two of the greatest drivers to ever sit behind a wheel. What a classic interview.
Classic...I go to the track at Spa every year. Always make a toast to Dan Gurney.. Both these guys could drive anything at any track.
Yes. Dan was such a handsome guy his entire life. Here he is in his twilight, but he’s still lucid.
AJ is still so young in spirit. He's still that same guy he was in '67.
As a kid growing up in Indy early 60's, We had nothing as far as professional sports goes! Later on the Pacers & the Colts arrived So these Race Drivers were my hero's, Sorely miss those Good ole days! The Glory days! A time when all those Incredible cars & Creations, Gurney's Eagles, Foyt's Coyote's , Penske & McLaren, Pat Patrick & Granatilli, Vel's & Parnelli Jones, A J Watson Etc, Todays generation could careless about Racing period.... God Bless AJ & Dan
RIP Dan Gurney & Robin Miller. 😥😢
I miss Dan Gurney. I really do. "Dan Gurney for President" bumper stickers were the best. RIP Dan. A lion of a racer mentored by a supercomputer of an engineering brain.
The crazy thing about this "All-American" victory was that of all the Fords and Chaparrals that represented the U.S.A.....only Foyt and Gurney were the All-American Team. Fate.
R.I.P. Dan Gurney
RIP Mr Gurney God Speed.
He had plenty of his own.
Robin now too! So sad both of those gentleman are gone. 🥺
Blathering on...I saw Dan win Ford's only Can-Am race at Bridgehampton...saw A.J. win his 4th at Indy in '77. I admired a lot of race car drivers, being an old man, but these two were The Americans, through and through.
two of the best of my lifetime.... great memories and so much love...
Two of my heroes. Both winners in Wood Brothers Fords/Mercurys. Both winners in anything they chose to drive. RIP Dan.
Can't replace Robin Miller. RIP
If these men mean anything to you, this is a terrific ten minutes. Robin did God's work by preserving this history.
Robin has the amazing ability to ask the right questions and he got them to open up a lot ! The greatest legends of American motorsports !
Dan & A.J. are racing gods from the golden era, both great men also built and drove their own cars too !!! I'm blessed to have watched them ( and Mario ) race multiple times and each in different types of cars.
Gurney, the jack-of-all trades. Great driver/owner/builder/engineer.
Dan Gurney for President!
I really enjoyed this interview. This interviewer is damn good. I'm impressed!
Wow! Great interview. Holy smokes those Gurney Eagles were such cool looking race cars and then there was that Coyote of Foyt's. Great to see an interview with the both of them. Foyt and Gurney absolutely stomped that LeMans field.
Two fantastic men. My car had Dan Gurney For President on it. Those two were some of my heroes.
Two of my favourite drivers, with my favourite motor-racing journalist....
Fantastic!
A close friend of mine in high school had an older brother who bought a Dan Gurney Boss 302 engine from Dan Gurney in 1971 believe. The engine was called the Gurney Eagle. He put this engine in a lightweight sand rail and blew the competition away drag racing this sand rail on sand at Sand Lake and other sand racing avenues.
warms an old Hoosier heart. Great stuff. saw Foyt win fourth in 1977
A.J. was one of my boyhood heroes...he always reminded me of my late father...raised on a farm and a self taught Engineer who didn't suffer fools and in my Dad's case could run calculus circles around college degreed Engineers. Pop worked out at Cape Canaveral during the Space Race years.
AJ arguably the GOAT of all race drivers the only man that won a Daytona 500,an Indy 500 & at Le Mans !
Two legends. Now rest in speed, Dan. I love you.
Never got to see Dan Gurney race in person but followed F-1 a lot when I was a kid. Saw AJ win the California 250 at Hanford, Ca. Marchbank Speedway in Nov. 1968. Passed Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti for the victory. That race was written up in a book of the top ten greatest races of all time. They were nose to tail for the last 70 laps of that 1.4 mile tri-oval. I was blessed to have been there. The track no longer exists...just the memory.
A side note: This race was also the ONE and ONLY RACE a TURBINE POWERED VEHICLE EVER FINISHED! Joe Leonard finished 4th after walking away from the field in the first 70 laps. They had a bad pit stop and with Andy Granatelli frantically yelling at the officials waving his arms wildly they came out a half a lap behind the lead trio. Looked like USAC was gonna make sure that car didn't win to me. Nobody liked the silent 'whoosh' car anyway. I know I didn't. But good God was it fast.
R.I.P. Dan Gurney. You made all Americans just as proud as Ford did in the '60s with that win at Spa two weeks after your win at LeMans
Very nice interview. For me, Dan Gurney and his Eagle-Weslake marked F1 history forever, with his victory at Spa in 1967. A legendary car, driven to victory by a legendary driver.
Two of the greatest racers of all time, I was lucky enough to see them both race at Riverside Raceway in California. Great interview, thanks.
RIP Dan Gurney
FWIW I sat in the Ford GT 40 these guys won Lemans with and it was ultra comfortable for someone my size (5' 10" 150 lbs). That said you weren't so much sitting in it as laying down the position was so reclined! Of course the car was parked in the Ford showroom at Watkins Glen at the time which is a somewhat different experience than traveling around the Lemans circuit at 240 mph!
2 of the best drivers ever. Both could drive ANYTHING well.
RIP Dan Gurney!
These two? American Gems! I was lucky enough to be around back in the day an see them race when racing was really somethin'.
One of your best, Robin! Thanks so much for this conversation with two legends.
Goodbye Dan, God Bless!
What a treat to see 2 of the greatest. You nailed this one Robin As Dan would say it was quite a shebang.
GREAT interview of 2 superstars that changed my life.
Miller. Thanks, beyond cool. Thanks Dan Thanks A J. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤠
RIP Dan Gurney, godspeed
Both great racers and nobody fascinates me more than A.J. Foyt...! And yes, love Robin...!
Thanks, ya'll are my all time heros! What a wonderful pair of careers!
The two greatest drivers in the same room.
Wow! Those two are icons.
I love this video. RIP Dan
RIP Dan Gurney.
What a trio. Classic stuff.
Great interview...thanks so very much for posting. My two racing boyhood heroes...listening to their short cryptic answers they remind me so much of my late Father who was a great man and an Engineer and a great dad but a man of few words.
Two of the greatest ever...
Looks like AJ has softened up a bit. He’s a hot tempered tough driver. Hell of a champ!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Two real racing Legends! I watched them alot here in Indy over the years. Great to see them together. Thanks Robin
Truley the Dream Team
Legends
so modest these guys, absolute legends!
Dan was initiated in the 24 hours of LeMans club (wink wink). 😁👍😁
Aj and dan hells ya
RIP Dan.
Two of the best.
Bless these warriors!!
Two legends! 'nuff said.
RIP what a great guy
What a joy seeing these two amazing heroes together. Saving this interview for posterity. Thank you Robin for this great work.
Awesome interview, especially after just watching The 24 Hour War last evening ... thank you guys!!
hit another one out of the park Robin, keep up the great content!
Great stuff with two of the ALL TIME LEGENDS!
P.S. Thanks Robin for dressing up again :)
Looked appropriate for the occasion. I want the shirt.
I'm glad to see the video.
Dan Gurney won the first 4x he raced at Riverside and 5x out of 9 races there driving for the Woods.
rest in peace you two
Great to see and hear a non pc interview with a couple of legends, thanks Robin ...
Priceless..........
That was great, thanks Robin and RACER
That was fun, thanks Robin and RACER!
My Heros,humble Heros.
Two of the best ever!!
2 of my all time favorite drivers! At the moment I am reading Brock Yates "Cannonball"!
3 legends here !
I'd have to give some thought to it, but yes, I do believe that these two men are my two biggest racing heroes of all time? Somewhere, in a shoe box, in one of my closets, or maybe my attic, is a photo of A.J. Foyt, with his arm around my young wife, taking a photograph with her at Elkhart Lake, when he was still driving the Indy cars. (I think it was 1987?). Til this day, my wife tells everyone that A.J. Foyt is the greatest driver of all time. I agree with her, with Gurney being a possible exception? It's great, seeing them together, after all those years.
Aj Foyt is still the Greatest American Race Driver who has ever lived, His record speaks for itself, He's Won Daytona 500 , 24 Hr Le mans, 4 Indy's 500, He won on Dirt
Two American racing legends.
Great get, Robin. Wonderful to see those two again!
Awesome interview!
Loved this. Thank you!
great interview. thanks for posting
Wow! Classic and iconic.
Great interview Robin,Thanks😆
Great video....brought back so many memories. Thank you for posting.
Great interview!
Two absolute legends
Great interview, with great men
Love these guys!
Awesome interview.... ♥️
Great Guys
Perhaps two of the greatest drivers of all time. They both proved that they could drive anything, and win, anywhere. The only American driver that I'd put up there with these two, would be Andretti. MARIO Andretti. Today, the closest we have would be Juan Pablo Montoya. We'll see if Alonso can win in all the other types of cars; it would certainly be interesting to see him on a dirt track!
Great stuff.
AJ always cracked me up running down the pits all pissed off at somebody.. That SOB LOL.. Dan the Man the best. That was when racing was great not many rules safety was not great and yellow flags were nowhere to be found.. And not so much corporate BS..
2 of the GREATEST racers. Computer driving wasn’t done then- just men racing men and cars.
Gurney was God in the 60s
Gold
I wish they could have attended the reunion together at lemans