So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting career in Hollywood. But motor racing drew him like an irresistible magnet. To begin with, at a mere 19 years old, he built and raced his own car, which turned…

Gurney finished out his F1 career driving for McLaren, first in an AAR-run M7A late in 1968, and then his final three GPs with this M14A, filling in after Bruce was killed in 1970.
Photo: Roger Dixon