{"id":460144,"date":"2004-02-01T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=103600"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:29:46","slug":"vintage-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first time I went to VIR-ginia International Raceway was in 1960, and road courses like this pastoral gem were normal. You expected to see fast curves through a natural, naked landscape. For me, anyway, there was a tingly sense of drama and magnitude arising from both the simple purity of the set- ting and the obvious raw risk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_697573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697573\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-697573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL-PETELYONS-293x415.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-697573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw how much our sport has changed when I revisited VIR in 2003\u2014because the track doesn\u2019t seem to have changed at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Pete Lyons I saw how much our sport has changed when I revisited VIR in 2003\u2014because the track doesn\u2019t seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":697574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11272,261,18207],"tags":[18322,17152,17140,548,11710,17143,17204],"class_list":["post-460144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-special-feature","tag-2000s-all","tag-car-culture","tag-members-only","tag-motorsport","tag-virginia-international-raceway","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-fast-lines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vintage Raceway<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pete Lyons travels back to Virginia International Raceway and learns that there is such a thing as a \u201cvintage\u201d track.\" \/>\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\/vintage-raceway\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vintage Raceway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pete Lyons travels back to Virginia International Raceway and learns that there is such a thing as a \u201cvintage\u201d track.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/\" \/>\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=\"2004-02-01T14:30:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-04T22:29:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL200402-p1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"559\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete Lyons\" \/>\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=\"Pete Lyons\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Pete Lyons\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dee0dc3e0ea3204e52a659a117d5f67f\"},\"headline\":\"Vintage Raceway\",\"datePublished\":\"2004-02-01T14:30:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-04T22:29:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/\"},\"wordCount\":1172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vintage-raceway\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/FL200402-p1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2000s All\",\"Car Culture\",\"Members Only\",\"Motorsport &amp; 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