{"id":492238,"date":"2012-03-01T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=29625"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:25:17","slug":"remnants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/remnants\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_545848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545848\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FL-PETELYONS-293x415.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By coincidence, I suppose, that was the same year the French tore down the ruins of Rouen\u2019s pits. At least a visitor whose soul vibrates to hallowed ground can still drive, as I once did, through the downhill swerves beyond, where Fangio used to hurl his Maserati into full-blooded powerslides.<\/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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