{"id":1492,"date":"2010-08-19T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2010-08-19T21:04:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T05:04:34","slug":"the-historic-grand-prix-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/the-historic-grand-prix-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historic Grand Prix Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/4907464079\/\" title=\"IMG_1156 by rnair, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4142\/4907464079_4123809aa1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_1156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had the pleasure of talking to long time GGLC member and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicgrandprix.com\/\">Historic Grand Prix<\/a> racer <a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?tag=chris-locke\">Chris Locke<\/a> at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Chris has been campaigning his ex-Andretti JPS <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotus_77\">Lotus 77<\/a> in historic grand prix for five years and graciously agreed to share his experiences with the rest of the GGLC. The following is our exclusive interview with him discussing the Historic Grand Prix experience, the history of his car and comparing the 77 to other cars both new and old.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/trcnFE0U5_I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can see more pictures of the Lotus 77 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/sets\/72157624760753952\/\">Flickr set<\/a> below while video from the Monterey Motorsports Reunion Historic Grand prix is available <a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=1482\">here<\/a>. For more info on Chris and his cars please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkeredpastracing.com\/\">Checkered Past Racing<\/a>.<br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Frnair%2Fsets%2F72157624760753952%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Frnair%2Fsets%2F72157624760753952%2F&#038;set_id=72157624760753952&#038;jump_to=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of talking to long time GGLC member and Historic Grand Prix racer Chris Locke at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Chris has been campaigning his ex-Andretti JPS Lotus 77 in historic grand prix for five years and graciously agreed to share his experiences with the rest of the GGLC. The following &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/the-historic-grand-prix-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Historic Grand Prix Experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,17,20,1,23],"tags":[113,258,276,375,561],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-o4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}