{"id":491076,"date":"2009-12-01T22:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=334698"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:31:38","slug":"1933-tourist-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1933-tourist-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Races &#8211; 1933 Tourist Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1933 Tourist Trophy &#8211; <span class=\"bodyText\">Sensation at <\/span>Syracuse<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Richard Hough<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"bodyText\">&#8220;It seems perfectly apparent,&#8221; wrote Sammy Davis after the 1932 race, &#8220;that the prospects for next year are not particularly good.&#8221; They did, indeed, look bleak a week or two before the race, with no more to support the MGs than half a dozen or so Rileys, a pair of Invictas, and three straight-eight Alfas, manned this time by Rose-Richards and Brian Lewis, who had shifted their allegiance from Talbots, and by Earl Howe. 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