{"id":52868,"date":"2016-07-04T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/30-second-board-13\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:33:41","slug":"30-second-board","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/november-2005\/3\/30-second-board\/","title":{"rendered":"30-second board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of Barney Oldfield and sepia-tinged images of a stogie-chomping superstar urging his car to the edge of control will form.&nbsp; Abnormally brave, he won this 14-carat medal &#8212; complete with a single &#8216;European-cut&#8217; diamond &#8212; for winning the seventh annual Cactus Derby, run on November 9-11, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>From Los Angeles to Phoenix, the tortuous route took cars over the El Cajon Pass, north towards Victorville and Barstow, then east to an overnight stop at Needles, a distance of 301 miles.&nbsp; The following day the 236-mile route saw drivers cross the Colorado River, head north to Kingman and Peach Springs, east again to Seligman and Ashfork, the south to Prescott.&nbsp; The final day featured a 134-mile run to the finishing line at the Phoenix Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Battling rain and hailstorms &#8212; and after getting stuck fast in river silt &#8212; Oldfield was crowned Master Driver of The World after taking victory in his Stutz.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[193,172],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121592],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52868"}],"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\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224953,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52868\/revisions\/224953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52868"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=52868"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=52868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}