He ran it at Manzy and PIR sprint car races a couple of times as well as Pikes Peak among other places. Throttle response and whoaing it up were its downfalls.
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Back in the early 70's if Goodyear was tire testing at Phoenix International Raceway I often would cut afternoon classes in High School and go watch them test.
I had many beers with him bench racing when he lived in Phoenix for a while. The legend in his own mind comment is funny and part of his legend and nature.
I finally got a chance to check these videos out. Very interesting assortment of history. The Steve Truchan trio of videos is worth the watch, as are all of the others.
One of my favorite stories about Mr. Gurney was when both of his drivers (I can't remember who) were complaining about the handling of one of his designs. The team was at a road course track testing...
You can throw NASCAR into this also. It used to be good, decent racing until they made all of the cars cookie cutters and began "track debris" cautions to bunch everyone back up to enable the fans to...
The leaders were running 218-ish at the time, so all cars had to be turning at least about 207.6 a lap or faster in order to be allowed to continue running.
