{"id":8143,"date":"2015-04-01T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:04:24","slug":"rrdc-to-honor-uncle-bobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/rrdc-to-honor-uncle-bobby\/","title":{"rendered":"RRDC to Honor Uncle Bobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_709609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709609\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-709609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bobby Unser reunited with his 1975 Eagle-Chevrolet 755Photo: Keith Booker\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/n9-201504-p1-1-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-709609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bobby Unser reunited with his 1975 Eagle-Chevrolet 755.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Keith Booker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bobby Unser will be the honored guest at the Road Racing Drivers Club annual Long Beach banquet on April 16. Unser is, of course, a three-time Indy 500 winner and a two time Indycar National Champion, having his likeness fitted to the Borg-Warner Trophy after winning at Indy in 1968, 1975 and 1981, and claiming the points championship in 1968 and 1974. His 35 Indycar wins rank him 5th all-time, and his record 10 overall wins (13 total) at Colorado\u2019s Pikes Peak Hillclimb make him the true King of the Mountain. He was also IROC champion in 1975, and the solitary Fast Masters titlist in 1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After retiring from the cockpit, Unser took his natural loquaciousness into the broadcast booth where he became an excellent expert analyst for ABC Sports, providing color commentary alongside Paul Page and Sam Posey. For complete information about the banquet, or to order tickets, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrdc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.rrdc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Unser will be the honored guest at the Road Racing Drivers Club annual Long Beach banquet on April 16. Unser is, of course, a three-time Indy 500 winner and a two time Indycar National Champion, having his likeness fitted to the Borg-Warner Trophy after winning at Indy in 1968, 1975 and 1981, and claiming the points championship in 1968 and 1974. His 35 Indycar wins rank him 5th all-time, and his record 10 overall wins (13 total) at Colorado\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":709608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,255,18114],"tags":[18435,11359,18105],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-news","category-people","tag-people","tag-bobby-unser","tag-people-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RRDC to Honor Uncle Bobby<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/rrdc-to-honor-uncle-bobby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RRDC to Honor Uncle Bobby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bobby Unser will be the honored guest at the Road Racing Drivers Club annual Long Beach banquet on April 16. 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