{"id":490657,"date":"2009-05-01T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=47460"},"modified":"2024-01-08T00:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:57:56","slug":"in-praise-of-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/in-praise-of-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the \u201980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in a drive up the hill, but there was the new rally stage, designed by Hannu Mikkola, which was a proper forest stage. I staked my place, so I had first pick of any of the 20 driver\/car combinations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the day I challenged Andy Marriott as to which driver I had sat with. 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