{"id":315,"date":"2009-08-30T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-08-30T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:37:54","slug":"the-man-in-the-terry-toweling-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2009\/08\/the-man-in-the-terry-toweling-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man In The Terry Toweling Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian motor sports legend, Frank Gardner, died yesterday on the Gold Coast, aged 78.  Frank was as famous for his terry-toweling hat, as he was for his celebrated open-wheel and touring car racing career in Europe, including eight Formula One races.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He is particularly remembered in Australia for managing the factory-supported JPS Team BMW&#8217;s in the 1980&#8217;s, including championships for Jim Richards, managing Tony Longhurst and Tomas Mezera to a Bathurst win in 1988, and taking Longhurst and Paul Morris to Super Touring titles in the 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5EgZYIB2qk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>A long time advocate and promoter of road safety, Frank will definitely be missed by many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian motor sports legend, Frank Gardner, died yesterday on the Gold Coast, aged 78. Frank was as famous for his terry-toweling hat, as he was for his celebrated open-wheel and touring car racing career in Europe, including eight Formula One races. He is particularly remembered in Australia for managing the factory-supported JPS Team BMW&#8217;s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}