{"id":491181,"date":"2010-02-01T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=42499"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:25:49","slug":"the-arundell-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-arundell-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arundell Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death of Peter Arundell promptsmemory of a challenge. Formula Junior was once Formula Arundell; he won twice as many major races as any other driver. Actually, the presence of Arundell and his Lotus defined what were major races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Arundell had won at the N\u00fcrburgring at the end of September 1962, two drivers, a German and an Austrian, complained that Lotus was cheating by running oversized engines. You can understand why they were miffed: their engines were way over the 1,100-cc limit and they couldn\u2019t contend, so it followed that Lotus had to be cheating big time.<\/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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