{"id":493275,"date":"2013-08-01T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=16340"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:08:41","slug":"the-shadowarrows-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-shadowarrows-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow\/Arrows Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After leaving Lotus, I was \u201csucked in\u201d by Don Nichols and rejoined Shadow. He said James Hunt would be our driver, and that all the problems of the past had been sorted out. I\u2019d had offers from Fittipaldi and Renault, but in the end I went back to Shadow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tab-a-tip had replaced UOP as title sponsors, which freed us from having to use UOP\u2019s lead-free fuel. 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