{"id":496084,"date":"2016-12-01T02:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T10:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=38464"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:10","slug":"battle-for-mclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/battle-for-mclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for McLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, in this space, I spoke about our newest contributor Howden Ganley, whose incredible motorsport career saw him go from an entry level mechanic to Formula One driver and subsequently a team owner and constructor. Of course, I was mortified to learn\u2014after we\u2019d gone to press\u2014that in my zeal to relay Howden\u2019s great story about how no one can properly pronounce the name of he and Tim Schenken\u2019s Tiga racecars, I had inadvertently misspelled the pronunciation (Ty-ga, NOT Tee-ga)! 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