{"id":8541,"date":"2014-07-07T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/racers-return-to-nassau\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T11:42:21","slug":"racers-return-to-nassau","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/february-2012\/15\/racers-return-to-nassau\/","title":{"rendered":"Racers return to Nassau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a break of 45 years, the island of Nassau in the Bahamas reverberated with the wail of racing engines at the start of December, as a group of classic racers took to the street circuit in the inaugural Bahamas Speed Week Revival.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Stirling Moss and veteran cars from the original end-of-season meet were back, including Rob Walton\u2019s Maserati 450S which came third in the Governor\u2019s Trophy in 1957, a \u201959 Bocar that had been the spare car on the Scarab team in 1960 and a Bristol-engined AC Ace that appeared in \u201958. Also back after 52 years away was the 1958 Lotus 15 Climax which won the Governor\u2019s Trophy in \u201959.<\/p>\n<p>As well as a concours d\u2019elegance, two events were offered for the 40-odd cars entered \u2013 a hillclimb and a sprint race. The racing was informal, but with the enthusiastic backing of the government and tourist board, as well as talk of a dedicated track being built, this exotic winter event is full of potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,181,38054,34061],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121648],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8541"}],"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=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269365,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8541\/revisions\/269365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}