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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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..
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
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.
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.
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
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!
Sure he would. Back then, anyway. Today? No chance, not with all the baloney going on in F1. Seriously, having your racing cars slow down because of mileage? Blasphemy! AJ was one of the all time best.
@@d.e.b.b5788 Dan, aside from being an excellent driver, was an excellent engineer, team owner, and a business man. All of that would have allowed him to succeed in F1 today if he put his mind to it. AJ was definitely an excellent driver and engineer but I'd question his ability to "bite his tongue" when dealing with the Political Correctness/PR/Sponsor crap that pervades F1 now. The F1 rules when they were driving were basically, built to the specs for your class and keep the car pointed "that way!" They were just barely into seat belts at that time, let alone minimum fuel mileage. As has been said many times... it was really a different world!
The old Mulsanne....so nice of the French to have painted the trees (lining almost the whole straight) white like that. Just imagine what that looks like when you're tunnel-visioned to see that DB Panhard that's doing 120 mph less than you...probably like one of those old shutter-scopes. So the really sad part of this is that this kind of LeMans is over, gone, and will never exist again.It'll be just those Hot Wheels cars that all look the same travelling quietly around the track. Shame. I mean, is there really any connection between the races of this era and recent times? I mean, air conditioning, really? Power steering? Briggs Cunningham drove to 4th in a car with a minimal windshield and did 22 of the 24 hours himself. Luigi Chinetti won doing basically the same thing in a 2 liter Ferrari in 1949. Anybody today doing that?
l thought Dan Gurney was technically was the best race car driver ever.l thought A J Foyt with out a doubt was the greatest race car driver ever ,by that he could drive all most any kind of car and win,,,1967 he won at indy ,,indy car,,he won at Daytona stock car,,,he won at lemans GT 40 Ford all in the same year three different types of cars and all of them ford power just amazing,and l believe he also won some midget dirt tracks events to,hell he could drive anything there never has been another driver that has repeated what AJ did in 1967.
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.
Can't replace Robin Miller. RIP
AJ is still so young in spirit. He's still that same guy he was in '67.
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.
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.
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
Two of my favourite drivers, with my favourite motor-racing journalist....
Fantastic!
RIP Mr Gurney God Speed.
He had plenty of his own.
Robin now too! So sad both of those gentleman are gone. 🥺
Gurney, the jack-of-all trades. Great driver/owner/builder/engineer.
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.
Yes. Dan was such a handsome guy his entire life. Here he is in his twilight, but he’s still lucid.
I really enjoyed this interview. This interviewer is damn good. I'm impressed!
One of your best, Robin! Thanks so much for this conversation with two legends.
RIP Dan Gurney & Robin Miller. 😥😢
warms an old Hoosier heart. Great stuff. saw Foyt win fourth in 1977
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
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...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.
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 of my heroes. Both winners in Wood Brothers Fords/Mercurys. Both winners in anything they chose to drive. RIP Dan.
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.
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.
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 !
two of the best of my lifetime.... great memories and so much love...
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.
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!
Great, but they weren't on the pole. They were ninth.
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..
Dan was initiated in the 24 hours of LeMans club (wink wink). 😁👍😁
Looks like AJ has softened up a bit. He’s a hot tempered tough driver. Hell of a champ!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Dan Gurney for President!
Two legends. Now rest in speed, Dan. I love you.
Two real racing Legends! I watched them alot here in Indy over the years. Great to see them together. Thanks Robin
Wow! Those two are icons.
Awesome interview, especially after just watching The 24 Hour War last evening ... thank you guys!!
Miller. Thanks, beyond cool. Thanks Dan Thanks A J. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤠
RIP Dan Gurney!
Both great racers and nobody fascinates me more than A.J. Foyt...! And yes, love Robin...!
These two? American Gems! I was lucky enough to be around back in the day an see them race when racing was really somethin'.
Gurney was God in the 60s
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
If these men mean anything to you, this is a terrific ten minutes. Robin did God's work by preserving this history.
Goodbye Dan, God Bless!
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.
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.
2 of the best drivers ever. Both could drive ANYTHING well.
RIP Dan Gurney, godspeed
RIP Dan Gurney
Truley the Dream Team
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
GREAT interview of 2 superstars that changed my life.
Gurney and Foyts record has only been beaten 4 times since 1967.
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 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 couldn't see Foyt in F-1.He wouldn't be able to deal with the brass.
Sure he would. Back then, anyway. Today? No chance, not with all the baloney going on in F1. Seriously, having your racing cars slow down because of mileage? Blasphemy! AJ was one of the all time best.
@@d.e.b.b5788 Dan, aside from being an excellent driver, was an excellent engineer, team owner, and a business man. All of that would have allowed him to succeed in F1 today if he put his mind to it. AJ was definitely an excellent driver and engineer but I'd question his ability to "bite his tongue" when dealing with the Political Correctness/PR/Sponsor crap that pervades F1 now.
The F1 rules when they were driving were basically, built to the specs for your class and keep the car pointed "that way!" They were just barely into seat belts at that time, let alone minimum fuel mileage. As has been said many times... it was really a different world!
Foyt is a dandy isn’t he? They don’t make em like that anymore. He hasn’t changed one iota.
What a joy seeing these two amazing heroes together. Saving this interview for posterity. Thank you Robin for this great work.
I gues we will never forget the people who “made” the sixties ?
I love this video. RIP Dan
The two greatest drivers in the same room.
hit another one out of the park Robin, keep up the great content!
RIP Dan Gurney.
I'm glad to see the video.
so modest these guys, absolute legends!
The old Mulsanne....so nice of the French to have painted the trees (lining almost the whole straight) white like that. Just imagine what that looks like when you're tunnel-visioned to see that DB Panhard that's doing 120 mph less than you...probably like one of those old shutter-scopes. So the really sad part of this is that this kind of LeMans is over, gone, and will never exist again.It'll be just those Hot Wheels cars that all look the same travelling quietly around the track. Shame. I mean, is there really any connection between the races of this era and recent times? I mean, air conditioning, really? Power steering? Briggs Cunningham drove to 4th in a car with a minimal windshield and did 22 of the 24 hours himself. Luigi Chinetti won doing basically the same thing in a 2 liter Ferrari in 1949. Anybody today doing that?
RIP Dan Gurney
Great to see and hear a non pc interview with a couple of legends, thanks Robin ...
That was great, thanks Robin and RACER
Dan Gurney won the first 4x he raced at Riverside and 5x out of 9 races there driving for the Woods.
Aj and dan hells ya
2 of my all time favorite drivers! At the moment I am reading Brock Yates "Cannonball"!
The tall Gurney always had trouble fitting into cars and now AJ does, too, for a different reason.
l thought Dan Gurney was technically was the best race car driver ever.l thought A J Foyt with out a doubt was the greatest race car driver ever ,by that he could drive all most any kind of car and win,,,1967 he won at indy ,,indy car,,he won at Daytona stock car,,,he won at lemans GT 40 Ford all in the same year three different types of cars and all of them ford power just amazing,and l believe he also won some midget dirt tracks events to,hell he could drive anything there never has been another driver that has repeated what AJ did in 1967.
RIP Dan.
Loved this. Thank you!
That was fun, thanks Robin and RACER!
This guy didn't ask the one question I wanted to hear. Ask AJ what his first impression of the Ford GT car was.
Two of the greatest ever...
Two legends! 'nuff said.
Legends
Two of the best.
Great interview Robin,Thanks😆
I guess if you’re a space pioneer you’re an astronaut. Well, these guys are “terranauts.”
Thanks, ya'll are my all time heros! What a wonderful pair of careers!
Hey...Robin does have friends!
I wish they could have attended the reunion together at lemans
Awesome interview!
Great get, Robin. Wonderful to see those two again!
great interview. thanks for posting
Robin Miller is still a putz, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney will always be giants of auto racing.
What was their vMax. The interview says were hitting 240, but the reports and the movie reported 212 vMax. Anyone know what it was?
2 of the GREATEST racers. Computer driving wasn’t done then- just men racing men and cars.
Great video....brought back so many memories. Thank you for posting.
Priceless..........
Two fantastic men. My car had Dan Gurney For President on it. Those two were some of my heroes.
Great Guys
Wow! Classic and iconic.
Two of the best ever!!