Emilio J. Lezcano

Journalist - Editor - Photographer Professional Race Car Driver

Dan Gurney

Daniel Sexton Gurney, was born April 13, 1931, in Port Jefferson, Long Island, to John Gurney, a Metropolitan Opera star and his wife Roma Sexton. As the grandson of F.W. Gurney, manufacturing magnate and inventor of the Gurney ball bearing, it made perfect sense.

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Carel Godin de Beaufort


He was his own man.  Running his own ‘Ecurie’ against the better prepared  teams efforts, he managed to upset the establishment on many occasions.  The happy and popular Dutch aristocrat Carel Godin de Beaufort (Maarsbergen, April 10, 1934 – Cologne, August 2, 1964) was the quintessential privateer of the late fifties and early sixties.  His orange Porsche housed a free spirit, at unease with the pomp and circumstance of a racing world trying to come to grips with a growing level of professionalism.

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