News from Dan Gurney’s All American Racers

Dan Gurney has been named Grand Marshal of the upcoming Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. He will be honored at a Rolex Dinner Friday night prior to the event. On Saturday he will wave off the field which includes his son Alex, the 2007 ROLEX DAYTONA PROTOTYPE Champion. Alex will be joined on the Gainsco Team by co-champion and last year's team mate Jon Fogarty, NASCAR champion Jimmy Johnson and CART Champion Jimmy Vasser. The team is looking for its first win at the endurance classic. The Gurney name is part of the history of the Daytona sports car event, Dan won the very first one in 1962 as a driver and again as a car builder and team owner in 1993, when PJ Jones, Rocky Moran and Andy Wallace put the Eagle GTP car into the winner's circle, their lap record remains unbroken to this day.

In addition, to the network coverage, the first 90 minutes of the 24 Hour Race can be seen on the 1,400-square foot News Astrovision Screen located in Times Square in New York. SPEED’s broadcast of the race will encompass Saturday, January 26 and Sunday, January 27, totaling 15.5 hours of coverage:

FOX LIVE! – Part I Jan 26 1:00 PM ET – 2:30 PM ET
SPEED LIVE! – Part II & III Jan 26 2:30 PM ET – 10:00 PM ET
SPEED LIVE! – Part IV Jan 27 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many publications here and abroad for remembering in words and pictures the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Le Mans and 1967 Spa Grand Prix victory last year . It is gratifying to see the interest so many fans have shown in John Zimmermann's book (published by David Bull): "Dan Gurney's Eagles, the technical history of the machines designed and built by All American Racers", the first edition is close to being sold out.

Since AAR left motorsports as a campaigner and race car manufacturer, the company has gradually branched out into different fields of endeavor. Putting its racing technology to good use, it has gradually enlarged and diversified its prototyping and manufacturing facilities and increased its workforce and by now has become very successful in the aviation industry. At the same time new Alligator motorcycles equipped with S & S V-twin engines are under development and will probably be introduced to the market later this year.

We wish all our supporters and fans a healthy and prosperous 2008!