{"id":494439,"date":"2015-05-01T00:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:03:32","slug":"christopher-tate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/christopher-tate\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<figure id=\"attachment_710015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710015\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-710015 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/int201505-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Tate<br \/>Photo: Kary Jiggle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Christopher Tate is the Managing Director of Donington Race Circuit in the UK. In his career, he has held many senior positions with various organizations including Lola Cars International, Elan Panoz and the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, UK. In recent years, he was one of the driving forces behind the Masters Historic Racing with Ron Maydon. His sports marketing agency has been involved at many levels with a number of racing series in the UK, Europe and the USA. It was his current position at Donington, which he has held since November 2011, that Vintage Racecar\u2019s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, wished to talk to him about. The conversation, held at Donington, initially revolved around Tate\u2019s father, Johnny, who produced many amateur films of the motor racing scene in the UK and Europe from the early 1950s through to the early 1970s, and the collection was subsequently made into a series of videos and DVDs known as A Gentleman\u2019s Diary of Motor Racing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Before we talk about you and Donington, I\u2019ve always been interested in your father\u2019s films and the story behind the Gentleman\u2019s Diary series.<\/strong> <\/em><\/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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His sports marketing agency has been involved at many levels with a number of racing series in the UK, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":710007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,18114],"tags":[18323,18435,16462,11662],"class_list":["post-494439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-people","tag-2010s-all","tag-people","tag-interview","tag-donington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christopher Tate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christopher Tate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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