{"id":494490,"date":"2015-05-27T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:59:59","slug":"sonoma-historics-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sonoma-historics-this-weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoma Speed Festival (2015) &#8211; This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allard will be the Featured Marque for this weekend\u2019s 6<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California.<\/p>\n<p>One of the \u201cGold Medallion\u201d events on Sportscar Vintage Racing Association\u2019s schedule for 2015, the invitational event salutes and rewards cars that are prepared as they were raced in their original era. 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