{"id":490715,"date":"2009-06-01T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=47296"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:07:01","slug":"roy-salvadori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/roy-salvadori\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Salvadori"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a \u201950s\u2013\u201960s swashbuckler and would not have looked out of place swinging down from the rigging of a man o\u2019 war, sword in hand, instead of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fantasy perhaps, but no less dashing than the profession he chose: motor racing, and he was good at it. Roy won 98 races and took 126 podium places during his 25+ year career. Because Salvadori was one of the Old School, it seemed perfectly natural to him to compete in up to five races a day. That\u2019s what he did with such panache, for instance, at Goodwood on Easter Monday, 1955. He won the F1 Glover Trophy in a Maserati 250F, then the Chichester Cup for F2 cars in a Connaught, and after that the sports car race in an Aston Martin. And he came 2nd in the other two races that day!<\/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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