{"id":45691,"date":"2014-07-07T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/talking-porsches-with-john-fitzpatrick\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:33:09","slug":"talking-porsches-with-john-fitzpatrick","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/september-2012\/119\/talking-porsches-with-john-fitzpatrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Porsches with John Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of Goodwood is the chance to chat to your heroes. A couple of years back I was to share a car with John Fitzpatrick at the Revival but its engine blew before we got the chance, so it was wonderful at last to sit down and talk with this legend.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation fell to Porsches in general and the 956 in particular. In 1983 John&#8217;s newly formed John Fitzpatrick Racing was the first privateer team to take delivery of a customer 956, which shows the high regard in which he must have been held.<\/p>\n<p>The finest hour came that year when he shared with Derek Warwick to win the wet Brands Hatch 1000Kms, beating the works Porsche and Lancia teams. &#8220;Looking back I guess it was the greatest moment of my career&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>In his last race in a 956, at Fuji in October 1983, he suffered a puncture at a near-flat right curve. &#8220;Derek (Bell) was following me in the works car and I have a photograph of him going underneath me, with me upside down above him. Luckily it landed on its feet and, save some bruising from the belts, I didn&#8217;t have a mark on me.&#8221; Others who continued to race in Group C were not so lucky.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew Frankel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,35185,364,34137,225,189],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121648],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45691"}],"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\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232097,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/45691\/revisions\/232097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45691"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=45691"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=45691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}