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When Gurney showed everyone how to celebrate!
Driver, manufacturer and innovator extraordinaire, Dan Gurney's outstanding legacy will live on forever. In 1967, Gurney teamed up with AJ Foyt to win the Le Mans 24 Hours for Ford, a victory of huge significance for the US manufacturer but also one which marked the beginning of a celebration ritual. On the podium, Gurney was handed a Magnum of Moët & Chandon champagne which he proceeded to uncork and... well, Dan picks up the story from here: "I was so stoked that when they handed me the champagne , I shook the bottle and began spraying at the photographers, drivers, Henry Ford II, Carroll Shelby and their wives," he once remembered. "It was a very special moment at the...
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