{"id":165844,"date":"2025-06-02T19:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=165844"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:15:09","slug":"ecurie-ecosse-tour-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/ecurie-ecosse-tour-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecurie Ecosse Tour, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_165654\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165654\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165654\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head of Pro-Drive, famed for their World Rally Championship successes with the factory Subarus and later Ferraris in the 1990s, David Richards with his wife Karen and their Aston Martin DB6 Volante.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story and photos by Graham Gauld<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s May, so for me it is time for the Ecurie Ecosse Tour, held on May 18-22. It originally started in the 1990s when this gathering of friends with nice cars were brought together under the umbrella of Ecurie Ecosse. To everyone\u2019s surprise this small private team won the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hour spectacle with one of their D type Jaguars driven by Scots Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson. Not only that, but this success allowed them to enter two cars for the 1957 and they promptly went out and finished first and second in D type Jaguars and a legend was born.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F165844\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and photos by Graham Gauld It\u2019s May, so for me it is time for the Ecurie Ecosse Tour, held on May 18-22. It originally started in the 1990s when this gathering of friends with nice cars were brought together under the umbrella of Ecurie Ecosse. To everyone\u2019s surprise this small private team won the... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F165844\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[13063,8864,13062,6396,13064],"class_list":{"0":"post-165844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-graham-gauld","7":"tag-david-murray","8":"tag-ecurie-ecosse-tour","9":"tag-ecurie-ecosse-tour-2025","10":"tag-graham-gauld","11":"tag-ron-dennis","12":"pmpro-level-required","13":"pmpro-level-1","14":"pmpro-no-access","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165845,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165844\/revisions\/165845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}