About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Adam Klein (tenor), Alan North, Annie O'Shea, Anthony Gelsomino, Bob Samuelson, Casey Frank, Cathy Downs, Chris Colmer, Clinton Kelly (TV personality), Dan Gurney, Frank Norton, Italo Zanzi, John Buscema, John Marburger, John McNamara (fraudster), John Popielaski, John T. Mather, Kaela Pflumm, Keith Osik, Kenneth LaValle, Les Goodman, Peter Ferraro, Robert Farrar Capon, SIRPAUL, Steven Legendre, Steve Crowley, Ted Chiang, Tim Cummings, Toby Knight, Tommy Henriksen, Tom Veryzer, Vernon Berg, III, Vic Carapazza, Vivien Cardone, Wally Gagel, Walter Berndt. Excerpt: Daniel Sexton Gurney (born April 13, 1931) is an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner. The son of a Metropolitan Opera star, he was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager. He has been a driver, a car manufacturer, and a team owner at racing's highest levels since 1958. Gurney also won races in the Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series. Gurney was the first driver to win races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967) (the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya). In 1967, after winning the 24 hours of Le Mans together with A.J. Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the podium. Apart from starting this tradition, he also was the first to put a simple right-angle extension on the upper trailing edge of the rear wing. This device, called a Gurney flap, increases downforce and, if well designed, imposes only a relatively small increase in aerodynamic drag. At the 1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing. Dan Gurney's father, John Gurney, was a prominent singer with the Metropolitan Opera in New York who retired in 1947 and moved the family to Riverside, California...
