{"id":110458,"date":"2015-09-22T19:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110458"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:25:28","slug":"video-porsche-factory-driver-shakes-down-restored-917k-before-rennsport-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110458","title":{"rendered":"Video: Porsche factory driver shakes down restored 917K before Rennsport Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest Porsche festival in the world \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pca.org\/news\/2014-10-09\/official-rennsport-reunion-v-be-held-laguna-seca-september-2015-update\">Rennsport Reunion V<\/a> \u2014 is this weekend. Car enthusiasts from around the world will descend upon Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to watch Porsches of all types and vintages race around the famous California race track, and we can think of no better way to build (warranted) excitement for the event than recording factory driver Patrick Long practicing behind the wheel of a 917K.<\/p>\n<p>The car in question is the 917 recently restored by Porsche Motorsport North America, and it\u2019s a different animal than the 911 RSR Long currently races. With 600+ horsepower, basic aerodynamics, and a throttle \u201cmade just zero and full\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pca.org\/news\/2015-09-21\/video-porsche-factory-driver-shakes-down-restored-917k-rennsport-reunion\" target=\"_blank\">917 video and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/adPy2iNhkzE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest Porsche festival in the world \u2014 Rennsport Reunion V \u2014 is this weekend. Car enthusiasts from around the world will descend upon Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to watch Porsches of all types and vintages race around the famous California race track, and we can think of no better way to build (warranted) excitement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,73,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video-general","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110459,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110458\/revisions\/110459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}