RIP Dan Gurney....a great racer

[Daehawk]

A great racer seems small when describing Gurney. He was a huge huge racer. A great American racer. I remember the name of Gurney from mostly the 70s when I was big into racing and had my little racetrack toys that dad would race with me and go to the local hobby store to buy cars for. Maybe a little from the 80s as well. He drove the hell out of anything they sat him in.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports ... -has-died/

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... y-obituary

http://autoweek.com/article/racing/dan-gurney-1931-2018

http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story ... ports-cars

Our own Denise McCluggage, who herself passed away just three years ago, was a lifelong friend of Gurney's. In her many columns for Autoweek, she often wrote of the tall, quietly confident young American who was part of a community of drivers the likes of which we may never see again. When she gathered all those stories together in a book, she chose for a title part of an A.E. Houseman poem, that describes that time and those young men perfectly:

With rue my heart is laden

For golden friends I had

For many a rose-lipped maiden

And many a lightfoot lad

By brooks too broad for leaping

The lightfoot boys are laid

The rose-lipped girls are sleeping

In fields where roses fade

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