{"id":137985,"date":"2017-12-09T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=137985"},"modified":"2017-12-09T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:29:30","slug":"the-drug-running-team-who-got-into-racing-with-a-bag-full-of-cash-at-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=137985","title":{"rendered":"The Drug-Running Team Who Got Into Racing With A Bag Full Of Cash At Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Whittington brothers were constantly searching for their next adrenaline fix, so naturally, they went into sports car racing. Ex-Canepa historian John Ficarra told their insane story to VINwiki, and it\u2019s a 1970s whirlwind of drugs and other illegal stuff, rad \u2018staches and duffel bags full of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the Whittingtons bought seats with the Kremer team for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, who was running their brilliant Porsche 935 K3s in the 1979 race. Kremer was putting his main drivers in first, and the Whittingtons weren\u2019t happy about that\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blackflag.jalopnik.com\/the-drug-running-team-who-got-into-racing-with-a-bag-fu-1821122960\" 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>The Whittington brothers were constantly searching for their next adrenaline fix, so naturally, they went into sports car racing. Ex-Canepa historian John Ficarra told their insane story to VINwiki, and it\u2019s a 1970s whirlwind of drugs and other illegal stuff, rad \u2018staches and duffel bags full of cash. Two of the Whittingtons bought seats with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985","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=137985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137986,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985\/revisions\/137986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}