{"id":124835,"date":"2016-11-16T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T03:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124835"},"modified":"2016-11-16T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T03:41:25","slug":"holy-crap-porsche-finally-made-a-mid-engine-911-rsr-race-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124835","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crap Porsche Finally Made A Mid-Engine 911 RSR Race Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/Porsche-2017-RSR-e1479354035632.jpg\" alt=\"porsche-2017-rsr\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Porsche 911 RSR isn\u2019t just a race car. It\u2019s the GT racer Porsche takes to the world\u2019s most important sports car race: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It\u2019s Porsche\u2019s brand in a nutshell, now with a mid-mounted engine that\u2019s a break from the flagship sports car\u2019s trademark rear engine placement.<\/p>\n<p>The 911 RSR is the car used by Porsche\u2019s factory endurance racing teams in the World Endurance Championship and WeatherTech SportsCar championship alike, plus numerous WEC customer teams. For 2017, the 911 RSR has been completely reworked, featuring most notably an engine that is entirely ahead of the rear axle\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blackflag.jalopnik.com\/holy-crap-porsche-finally-made-a-mid-engine-911-race-ca-1789051250\" 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 911 RSR isn\u2019t just a race car. It\u2019s the GT racer Porsche takes to the world\u2019s most important sports car race: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It\u2019s Porsche\u2019s brand in a nutshell, now with a mid-mounted engine that\u2019s a break from the flagship sports car\u2019s trademark rear engine placement. The 911 RSR [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124835","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=124835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124841,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124835\/revisions\/124841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}