{"id":459306,"date":"2000-08-01T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2000-08-01T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=123081"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:36:30","slug":"a-matter-of-national-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-matter-of-national-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of National Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our journey began at Bellefille, an incredibly beautiful chateau about 20 clicks west of Le Mans. Bellefille, literally, \u201cbeautiful girl,\u201d for the proprietress of the chateau sometime in the 13th Century, was our home during the week of the 24-Hours of Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While it was difficult to leave the idyllic setting of Bellefille, the task at hand was certainly not an unpleasant one: to drive a brilliant yellow C5 Corvette from Le Mans North and West to Cherbourg, about an eight-hour journey, I was told, allowing time to stop at the World War II beaches at Normandy. 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While it was difficult to leave the idyllic setting of Bellefille, the task at hand was certainly not an unpleasant one: to drive a brilliant yellow C5 Corvette from Le Mans North and West to Cherbourg, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":814358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18207],"tags":[17152,17143],"class_list":["post-459306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Matter of National Pride<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tim Considine learns the value of baseball, apple pie and good old-fashioned American horsepower.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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