{"id":14878,"date":"2014-07-07T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/possum-bourne\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:08:03","slug":"possum-bourne","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/june-2003\/6\/possum-bourne\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Possum&#8217; Bourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Obituary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand lost its best-known rally driver at the end of April after a freak road accident during preparations for the Race to the Sky Hillclimb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Possum&#8217; Bourne, 47, never recovered from injuries sustained in a head-on accident with a fellow competitor and died in hospital 11 days later. He is survived by his wife Peggy and three young children.<\/p>\n<p>His rally career spanned 25 years and included seven Australian rally championships and three Asia-Pacific titles.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to contest the Production Car category of the World Rally Championship this season with Subaru.<\/p>\n<p>Hugely popular in his native country, Bourne&#8217;s success was instrumental in the establishment of Subaru in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Rallying has lost one of its good guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[40328,49083],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121669],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262898,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14878\/revisions\/262898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=14878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}