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When
You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go. In 1967, Dan Gurney made motorsports history
at Spa when he won the Belgian Grand Prix in his own Eagle race car, a
Formula 1 first for an American. Less noteworthy, but funnier, was
Gurney’s performance, and the Eagle’s F1 debut, in the previous year’s
Belgian race.
Starting
dead last, Gurney was working his way through the pack when it became
agonizingly clear to him that he had to go. To the toilet. Could this
all-American boy simply let loose and drive on - in a seat full of pee?
No way! The one time Car & Driver candidate for President of the
U.S. stopped the car, climbed out, left the engine idling, put a rock
behind one tire, let fly into a trackside ditch in front of a flock of
disbelieving Belgians, climbed back in, and motored away.
He
finished seventh. |