{"id":491611,"date":"2010-12-01T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=37349"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:07:41","slug":"ferenc-szisz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ferenc-szisz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferenc Szisz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds. Yet it was one that had been hovering about in my subconscious for years, though I never took the trouble to find out who the hell he was. Then Renault did it for me: to mark Fernando Alonso\u2019s win in the 2006 Grand Prix of Canada driving their R26, the company issued Szisz\u2019s report on his landmark victory in the world\u2019s very first Grand Prix 100 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report is a must-have for every reader of Vintage Racecar, and I shall reproduce it here later, word for word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content > :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=\"cs-paywall\">\n<div class=\"cs-paywall__card\">\n<div class=\"cs-paywall__top\"><span class=\"cs-paywall__label\">Members only<\/span><span class=\"cs-paywall__price\">$29 <em>\/ year<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"cs-paywall__title\">Keep going. <span>This is where it gets good.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"cs-paywall__lead\">Supercars.net Membership is for people who&#x27;d rather know the spec sheet by heart than skim ten headlines. 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