{"id":370190,"date":"2013-04-22T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=48411"},"modified":"2024-01-14T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T08:18:52","slug":"al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Historic Races (2013) &#8211; Al Unser, Jr. Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_792294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-792294\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-792294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car-100x65.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car-293x191.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-792294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Unser, Jr in CART car (photo: Ken Dwinell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. was named Grand Marshal for the 2013 Portland Historic Automobile Races, scheduled for June 27-30 at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon.<br \/>\nThe 1990 and 1994 CART champion will return to the site of his first Indy Car win in 1984 at Portland International Raceway. In addition to the inaugural 1984 CART race, Unser won at Portland again in &#8217;94 and \u201895, and was on the podium four additional times.<br \/>\n\u201cOur family has been in racing for over four generations, so the history of the sport is very important to me,\u201d said Unser. \u201cI am looking forward to meeting the fans and drivers, enjoying these great race cars and sharing a bit of our family history.\u201d<br \/>\nIndy Car drivers are not normally known as road racers but Unser cut his teeth turning right as well as left. He won the Super Vee title in 1981 and the Can Am championship in 1982 before moving on to Indy cars. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1986 and 1987 driving a Porsche 962 with Al Holbert and Derek Bell. Unser dominated the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in the late \u201880\u2018s, winning a record six times and became the youngest IROC champion in 1988.<br \/>\nAmerica\u2019s &#8220;first family&#8221; of racing, the Unsers have nine Indy 500 wins between them, 30 Pikes Peak records, and countless Champ Car, NASCAR, USAC, SCCA, and Sprint Car victories spanning seven decades.<br \/>\nThe 60th anniversary of the Corvette will be the feature at the 37th annual Portland Historics and racing gets underway on a new date: June 27-30, 2013. Unser will be on hand to meet the fans, sign autographs and share stories of his illustrious career throughout the weekend.<br \/>\nFor additional information, visit <a title=\"Portland Historic Races\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandhistorics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.portlandhistorics.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n[Source: HMSA]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. was named Grand Marshal for the 2013 Portland Historic Automobile Races, scheduled for June 27-30 at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon. The 1990 and 1994 CART champion will return to the site of his first Indy Car win in 1984 at Portland International Raceway. In addition to the inaugural 1984 CART race, Unser won at Portland again in &#8217;94 and \u201895, and was on the podium four additional times. \u201cOur family has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":792294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[11469,432,15234,17517],"class_list":["post-370190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-hmsa","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-vintage-race-portland-historics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Al Unser, Jr. Honored at 2013 Portland Historics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Al Unser, Jr. was named Grand Marshal for the 2013 Portland Historic Races, scheduled for June 27-30 at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Al Unser, Jr. Honored at 2013 Portland Historics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Al Unser, Jr. was named Grand Marshal for the 2013 Portland Historic Races, scheduled for June 27-30 at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-22T12:00:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-14T08:18:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Al-Unser-Jr-in-CART-car.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/al-unser-jr-honored-at-2013-portland-historics\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Portland Historic Races (2013) &#8211; 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