{"id":496009,"date":"2016-11-01T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=37503"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:10","slug":"mclaren-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mclaren-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifty years is quite a long time, in politics or any other activity. In motor racing, though, 50-year anniversaries seem to keep coming around quite regularly. I suppose it is significant because many of us are fortunate enough to last for over 50 years, but rather less of us see out the double of 100 years, although my mother did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So those of us who are of a \u201ccertain age\u201d get invited to join in the celebration of these milestones with what now seems to be a great deal of regularity. We are currently dealing with 1966\u2014a mostly good year, when Sir Jack Brabham won his third World Championship and thus became the only man to take the title in a car bearing his own name.<\/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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