{"id":52143,"date":"2025-09-23T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/?p=52143"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:51:12","slug":"dave-nicholas-wins-the-namgar-bucher-decker-cup-in-the-collier-cup-race-at-the-2025-watkins-glen-vintage-race-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/dave-nicholas-wins-the-namgar-bucher-decker-cup-in-the-collier-cup-race-at-the-2025-watkins-glen-vintage-race-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Nicholas Wins the NAMGAR Bucher-Decker Cup in the Collier Cup Race at the 2025 Watkins Glen Vintage Race Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NAMGAR member Dave Nicholas won the Bucher-Decker Cup for highest finishing MGA during the Collier Cup race on Sept 6.  This race was part of the SVRA vintage racing event at Watkins Glen International.  Following a significant racing accident at Lime Rock the previous weekend which did significant damage to Honey Bee, Dave&#8217;s multiple championship winning yellow MGA 1600,  Dave was racing a borrowed MGA vintage racer.  Jeff Sienkiewicz of upstate NY loaned Dave his BRG vintage racing MGA for practice and Collier Cup race.  The attached photo is credited to Ray Stone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025GlenDNCollierCupraceborrowedMGA.png\" alt=\"Dave Nicholas Wins the NAMGAR Bucher-Decker Cup in the Collier Cup Race at the 2025 Watkins Glen Vintage Race Weekend\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025GlenDNCollierCupraceborrowedMGA.png 1068w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025GlenDNCollierCupraceborrowedMGA-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025GlenDNCollierCupraceborrowedMGA-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025GlenDNCollierCupraceborrowedMGA-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NAMGAR member Dave Nicholas won the Bucher-Decker Cup for highest finishing MGA during the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-articles-news","category-namgar-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52145,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52143\/revisions\/52145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}