{"id":489907,"date":"2008-04-01T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=55218"},"modified":"2024-01-13T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T09:40:04","slug":"racing-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/racing-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I said to you the words \u201chistoric racing\u201d and \u201cgreen,\u201d what comes immediately to mind? A British racing green Jaguar? The infield grass at your favorite track? All the money you spent on your last racing engine? Any of these would seem valid to me. But would you have thought about making your historic racecar more environmentally friendly? Yeah, me neither.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a day-to-day basis, I get deluged with press releases. They come by email in droves, along with offers of low-cost Viagra and offers to help the Mauritanian government with a little cash flow problem that apparently only I can remedy. However, through this tidal wave of junk email, the title of one press release so jumped off the screen at me, I had to stop and go through it, just to assure myself that I wasn\u2019t hallucinating. The title read, \u201cRace Retro asks \u2018How Can Historic Motorsport Go Green?\u2019\u201d As I opened the email, I hoped that this missive would somehow revolve around the British national racing colors and not the inevitable encroachment of inane restrictions on historic racing. 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You&#8217;re missing out<\/h2>\n<p class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content\">Any Text Here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a07online-global-marketing-prompt\" href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/checkout?plan=86696\">Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">\n<h4 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">Already a Member? <a href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/account\">Sign in to your account here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I said to you the words \u201chistoric racing\u201d and \u201cgreen,\u201d what comes immediately to mind? A British racing green Jaguar? The infield grass at your favorite track? All the money you spent on your last racing engine? Any of these would seem valid to me. But would you have thought about making your historic racecar more environmentally friendly? Yeah, me neither. On a day-to-day basis, I get deluged with press releases. They come by email in droves, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":587736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11272,261,18207],"tags":[17152,17140,548,17143,17200],"class_list":["post-489907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-members-only","tag-motorsport","tag-special-feature","tag-first-turn-column"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Racing Green?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Racing Green?\" \/>\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\/racing-green\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Racing Green?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Racing Green?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/racing-green\/\" \/>\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=\"2008-04-02T00:00:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-13T09:40:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/FT-CASEY.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casey Annis\" \/>\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=\"Casey Annis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/racing-green\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/racing-green\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Casey Annis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/02825f2c90f727d91e873a83f18cbd9f\"},\"headline\":\"Racing Green?\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-04-02T00:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-13T09:40:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/racing-green\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":816,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/racing-green\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/FT-CASEY.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Car Culture\",\"Members Only\",\"Motorsport &amp; 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