Dan Gurney
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/22/2010 07:47 pm by admin
Prepare yourself NASCAR fans…F1 fan here to ask a question.?
During the 1960′s Dan Gurney won several races in NASCAR. Infact he won one race 5 years running. NASCAR declared that he was stealling the winnings from the American drivers even though Gurney is an American (even served 2 years in the US army during the Koren War)
That’s the background for what I want to ask: Does racing in F1 (which at the time Gurney was doing) mean your not ‘American’. And if so why?
Racing in F1 does not make you any less american. I think that many americans think of F1 as a european dominated sport since most of the races are there and it is won mostly by european drivers from european teams.
Also, as far as I knew Dan Gurney was about as american as you can get. Born and grew up in the US but raced abroad. I knew that he had some wins in nascar but I have never heard that he was forced out or anything like what you describe. I thought that he was always most interested in F1 and endurance/sportscar racing and saw nascar as a side project and simply left nascar to pursue racing that he was more interested in.
Dan Gurney and the Eagle at Spa