{"id":134283,"date":"2017-07-29T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=134283"},"modified":"2017-07-29T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:50:26","slug":"confirmed-porsche-leaving-lmp1-heading-to-formula-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=134283","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Porsche leaving LMP1, heading to Formula E"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"header-sub-headline\"><em>Future of LMP1 class for WEC, Le Mans in doubt after latest defection<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Porsche will quit the LMP1 class of the World Endurance Championship at the end of this year ahead of a move to Formula E.<\/p>\n<p>The German manufacturer is leaving the top flight of sports car racing after four seasons with the 919 Hybrid, one year before the end of its existing commitment through to the end of 2018. It will then move to the FIA&#8217;s electric vehicle series in season six in 2019-20 when the grid will expand by two teams<\/p>\n<p>Porsche announced Friday its departure from the P1 class of the WEC and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans\u00a0after firming up plans to launch\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/autoweek.com\/article\/sports-cars\/confirmed-porsche-leaving-lmp1-heading-formula-e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future of LMP1 class for WEC, Le Mans in doubt after latest defection Porsche will quit the LMP1 class of the World Endurance Championship at the end of this year ahead of a move to Formula E. The German manufacturer is leaving the top flight of sports car racing after four seasons with the 919 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134283","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=134283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134286,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134283\/revisions\/134286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}