{"id":54668,"date":"2018-08-13T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/save-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:40:23","slug":"save-season","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/november-2017\/83\/save-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Save of the season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That long moment when there\u2019s no more lock left\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dickie Meaden\u2019s victory didn\u2019t come easily: a slide exiting Fordwater prompted commentators to wonder how he\u2019d managed to save it. Video of the incident quickly spread on social media. Here he explains what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember all that much about it. I had just got past Mike Jordan, so it was my first proper run with Mike behind me. I was trying to be neat and tidy, but going through Fordwater flat is never easy because the car is always moving around and you are always correcting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was chasing I was trying to steal little bits of track and the car felt fine; I remember I\u2019d touched the kerb a little bit on a previous lap and it didn\u2019t unsettle the car too much. The difference may have been that previously I\u2019d taken the corner in fourth, but this time I\u2019d shifted to fifth. Perhaps the line was slightly different, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I went through the car was loaded up and at that point on the track the road falls away a little bit. I remember as I came out of the bend the car started to fall over itself and began to snap around. It was so sudden that I thought I might have a puncture or that something had broken. I put full steering lock on instinctively, but it was made more difficult because there is no self-centring on the Alfa\u2019s steering so you have to do it by feel. Looking at the footage, I see that I came off the throttle immediately then back on it as I corrected. You have to continue to drive the car in situations like that, otherwise you\u2019ll be off in the other direction as soon as you correct the first slide \u2013 that\u2019s what usually happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it was quite a big one and I was angry with myself for making a mistake. I must admit I went into the next bend a little more cautiously \u2013 but luckily it didn\u2019t ruin the race for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121674],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/54668"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/54668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223153,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/54668\/revisions\/223153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54668"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=54668"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=54668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}