{"id":122305,"date":"2016-09-06T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122305"},"modified":"2016-09-06T22:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T05:16:45","slug":"how-porsche-killed-its-le-mans-racer-in-2000-to-build-suvs-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122305","title":{"rendered":"How Porsche Killed Its Le Mans Racer in 2000 to Build SUVs Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Porsche 9R3 was meant to stop Audi&#8217;s Le Mans dominance. Instead, it gave its V10 heart to the Carrera GT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Audi debuted its R8 Le Mans Prototype in 2000, there was nothing to stop it. The R8 ran away with five overall victories at Le Mans and dozens of wins elsewhere. Over the last two years, Audi&#8217;s sports car dominance has been thwarted by corporate brother Porsche, but what if Porsche had built a car to challenge to the original R8 back in 2000?\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/motorsports\/a30667\/porsche-9r3-lmp1\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Porsche 9R3 was meant to stop Audi&#8217;s Le Mans dominance. Instead, it gave its V10 heart to the Carrera GT When Audi debuted its R8 Le Mans Prototype in 2000, there was nothing to stop it. The R8 ran away with five overall victories at Le Mans and dozens of wins elsewhere. Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122305","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=122305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122316,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122305\/revisions\/122316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}