{"id":1614,"date":"2009-02-18T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:18:54","slug":"vintage-corvette-racing-past-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Vintage Corvette Racing &#8211; Past Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1615\" title=\"corvette1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/corvette1.jpg\" alt=\"corvette1\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body_link sz11\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ask the average fan what a Corvette race car looks like, and chances are he&#8217;ll describe the Pratt &amp; Miller-built C6.R entries that have dominated ALMS GT1 competition since 2005. But on any given weekend, from the end of January through December, it&#8217;s possible to find scores of Vettes competing in vintage-class races all over the United States. Have you ever wanted to see a big-block Sting Ray go head-to-head against a 427 Cobra, or a &#8217;63 Z06 battle it out with a Shelby GT350 Mustang? Thanks to vintage racing, legendary match-ups like these are still very much alive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; float: right; text-align: left;\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/features\/vemp_0904_vintage_corvette_racing\/photo_02.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vintage Corvette Racing  \" src=\"http:\/\/image.vetteweb.com\/f\/images\/14801870+pinline_medium\/vemp_0904_02_z+vintage_corvette_racing+.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vintage Corvette Racing  \" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"body_link sz11\">There are currently around 50 different sanctioning organizations that hold races throughout the country. One of the larger groups is the Sports Car Club of America, or SCCA, which runs vintage races &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetteweb.com\/features\/vemp_0904_vintage_corvette_racing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the average fan what a Corvette race car looks like, and chances are he&#8217;ll describe the Pratt &amp; Miller-built C6.R entries that have dominated ALMS GT1 competition since 2005. But on any given weekend, from the end of January through December, it&#8217;s possible to find scores of Vettes competing in vintage-class races all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}