{"id":51089,"date":"2025-08-07T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51089\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:13:07","slug":"how-a-perennial-problem-for-national-motorsport-is-acutely-affecting-historic-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51089\/","title":{"rendered":"How a perennial problem for national motorsport is acutely affecting historic racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the arguments Autosport has regularly made during its 75 years is that there is simply too much club motorsport in this country for the number of competitors we have.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we should be grateful to have a busy national scene where a variety of events at a great mix of circuits take place week in, week out. But the balance can very quickly tip when there are small grids at those events, making the sheer volume of contests difficult to justify. And that problem is particularly acute in the historic racing world at present.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the arguments Autosport has regularly made during its 75 years is that there is simply too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,43021,806,805,803,804,621,85],"class_list":["post-51089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-how-a-perennial-problem-for-national-motorsport-is-acutely-affecting-historic-racing","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-national","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}